1 Timothy 6:4

New English Translation

he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

Cross References

Proverbs 13:7

There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.

Proverbs 25:14

Like cloudy skies and wind that produce no rain, so is the one who boasts of a gift not given.

Proverbs 26:12

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Isaiah 58:4

Look, your fasting is accompanied by arguments, brawls, and fistfights. Do not fast as you do today, trying to make your voice heard in heaven.

Acts 15:2

When Paul and Barnabas had a major argument and debate with them, the church appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to meet with the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this point of disagreement.

Acts 18:15

but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things!”

Acts 8:9

Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

Romans 12:16

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

Romans 13:13

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

Romans 14:1

Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions.

Romans 2:8

but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

1 Corinthians 11:16

If anyone intends to quarrel about this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

1 Corinthians 11:18

For in the first place, when you come together as a church I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

Galatians 5:15

However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.

Galatians 6:3

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Philippians 1:15

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.

Philippians 2:14

Do everything without grumbling or arguing,

Philippians 2:3

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God’s temple, displaying himself as God.

1 Timothy 1:4

nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God’s redemptive plan that operates by faith.

1 Timothy 1:7

They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently.

1 Timothy 3:6

He must not be a recent convert or he may become arrogant and fall into the punishment that the devil will exact.

2 Timothy 2:14

Remind people of these things and solemnly charge them before the Lord not to wrangle over words. This is of no benefit; it just brings ruin on those who listen.

2 Timothy 2:23

But reject foolish and ignorant controversies, because you know they breed infighting.

2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.

Titus 3:9

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.

James 1:19

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

2 Peter 2:12

But these men, like irrational animals – creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed – do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

2 Peter 2:18

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

Jude 1:10

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

Jude 1:16

These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.

Revelation 3:17

Because you say, “I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing,” but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,