1 Timothy 6:4

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

is puffed up with conceit, not really knowing anything, but having a morbid craving for discussions and arguments. Such things only give rise to envy, quarreling, recriminations, base suspicions,

Cross References

Acts 15:2

This gave rise to a serious dispute, and much discussion, between Paul and Barnabas and these men, and it was therefore settled that Paul and Barnabas and others of their number should go up to Jerusalem, to consult the Apostles and Officers of the Church about the matter under discussion.

Acts 18:15

But, since it is a dispute about words, and names, and your own Law, you must see to it yourselves. I do not choose to be a judge in such matters."

Acts 8:9

There was staying in the city a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic there and mystifying the Samaritan people, giving himself out to be some great Being.

Romans 12:16

Let the same spirit of sympathy animate you all, not a spirit of pride; be glad to associate with the lowly. Do not think too highly of yourselves.

Romans 13:13

Being in the light of Day, let us live becomingly, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lust and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Romans 14:1

As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.

Romans 2:8

While as to those who are factious, and disobedient to Truth but obedient to Evil, wrath and anger, distress and despair,

1 Corinthians 11:16

If, however, any one still thinks it right to contest the point-well, we have no such custom, nor have the Churches of God.

1 Corinthians 11:18

To begin with, I hear you and, to some extent, I believe it.

1 Corinthians 3:18

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you imagines that, as regards this world, he is a wise man, let him become a 'fool,' that he may become wise.

1 Corinthians 3:3

While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other men do?

2 Corinthians 11:20

You tolerate a man even when he enslaves you, when he plunders you, when he gets you into his power, when he puts on airs of superiority, when he strikes you in the face!

Galatians 5:15

But, if you are continually wounding and preying upon one another, take care that you are not destroyed by one another.

Galatians 5:26

Do not let us grow vain, and provoke or envy one another.

Galatians 6:3

If a man imagines himself to be somebody, when he is really nobody, he deceives himself.

Philippians 1:15

It is true that some do proclaim the Christ out of Jealousy and opposition; but there are others who proclaim him from good- will.

Philippians 2:14

In all that you do, avoid murmuring and dissension,

Philippians 2:3

Nothing should be done in a factious spirit or from vanity, but each of you should with all humility regard others as of more account than himself,

Colossians 2:18

Do not let any one defraud you of the reality by affecting delight in so-called 'humility' and angel-worship. Such a man busies himself with his visions, and without reason is rendered conceited by his merely human intellect.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

Who so opposes himself to every one that is spoken of as a God or as an object of worship, and so exalts himself above them, that he seats himself in the Temple of God, and displays himself as God!

1 Timothy 1:4

nor to devote their attention to legends and interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise to argument rather than to further that divine plan which is revealed in the Faith.

1 Timothy 1:7

They want to be Teachers of the Law, and yet do not understand either the words they use, or the subjects on which they speak so confidently.

1 Timothy 3:6

The Presiding-Officer should not be a recent convert, that he may not be blinded by pride and fall under the same condemnation as the Devil.

2 Timothy 2:14

Remind people of all this; urge them solemnly, as in the sight of God, to avoid controversy, a useless thing and the ruin of those who listen to it.

2 Timothy 2:23

Shun foolish and ignorant discussions, for you know that they only breed quarrels;

2 Timothy 3:4

treacherous, reckless, and puffed up with pride; they will love pleasure more than they love God;

Titus 3:9

But have nothing to do with foolish discussions, or with genealogies, or with controversy, or disputes about the Law. They are useless and futile.

James 1:19

Mark this, my dear Brothers--Let every one be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry;

2 Peter 2:12

These men, however, like animals without reason, intended by nature to be caught and killed--these men, I say, malign those of whom they know nothing, and will assuredly perish through their own corruption,

2 Peter 2:18

With boastful and foolish talk, they appeal to the passions of man's lower nature, and, by their profligacy, entice those who are just escaping from the men who live such misguided lives.

Jude 1:10

But these men malign whatever they do not understand; while they use such things as they know by instinct (like the animals that have no reason) for their own corruption.

Jude 1:16

These men are always murmuring, and complaining of their lot; they follow where their passions lead them; they have arrogant words upon their lips; and they flatter men for the sake of what they can get from them.

Revelation 3:17

You say 'I am rich and have grown rich, and I want for nothing,' and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked!