1 Timothy 6:4

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

he is puffed up with conceit, he knows nothing; he has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,

Cross References

Proverbs 13:7

One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Proverbs 25:14

Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.

Proverbs 26:12

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

Isaiah 58:4

Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.

Acts 15:2

And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.

Acts 18:15

but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I refuse to be a judge of these things.”

Acts 8:9

But there was a man named Simon who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the nation of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great.

Romans 12:16

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; never be conceited.

Romans 13:13

let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Romans 14:1

As for the man who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not for disputes over opinions.

Romans 2:8

but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

1 Corinthians 11:16

If any one is disposed to be contentious, we recognize no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

1 Corinthians 11:18

For, in the first place, when you assemble as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it,

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men?

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you bear it if a man makes slaves of you, or preys upon you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.

Galatians 5:15

But if you bite and devour one another take heed that you are not consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:26

Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another.

Galatians 6:3

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

Philippians 1:15

Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.

Philippians 2:14

Do all things without grumbling or questioning,

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one disqualify you, insisting on self-abasement and worship of angels, taking his stand on visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,

2 Thessalonians 2:4

who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

1 Timothy 1:4

nor to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies which promote speculations rather than the divine training that is in faith;

1 Timothy 1:7

desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make assertions.

1 Timothy 3:6

He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil;

2 Timothy 2:14

Remind them of this, and charge them before the Lord to avoid disputing about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.

2 Timothy 2:23

Have nothing to do with stupid, senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

Titus 3:9

But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile.

James 1:19

Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

2 Peter 2:12

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed, reviling in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed in the same destruction with them,

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

Jude 1:10

But these men revile whatever they do not understand, and by those things that they know by instinct as irrational animals do, they are destroyed.

Jude 1:16

These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.

Revelation 3:17

For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.