One person pretends to be rich but has nothing; another pretends to be poor but has abundant wealth.
1 Timothy 6:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarrelling, slander, evil suspicions, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He is puffed up with pride and stupefied with conceit, [although he is] woefully ignorant. He has a morbid fondness for controversy and disputes and strife about words, which result in (produce) envy and jealousy, quarrels and dissension, abuse and insults and slander, and base suspicions, American Standard Version (1901) he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Common English Bible that person is conceited. They don’t understand anything but have a sick obsession with debates and arguments. This creates jealousy, conflict, verbal abuse, and evil suspicions. Catholic Public Domain Version then he is arrogant, knowing nothing, yet languishing amid the questions and quarrels of words. From these arise envy, contention, blasphemy, evil suspicions: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions, |
One person pretends to be rich but has nothing; another pretends to be poor but has abundant wealth.
The one who boasts about a gift that does not exist is like clouds and wind without rain.
Do you see a person who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today, hoping to make your voice heard on high.
After Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, Paul and Barnabas and some others were appointed to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this issue.
But if these are questions about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.’
A man named Simon had previously practised sorcery in that city and amazed the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great.
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud; instead, associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own estimation.
Let us walk with decency, as in the daytime: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarrelling and jealousy.
Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but don’t argue about disputed matters.
but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth while obeying unrighteousness.
If anyone wants to argue about this, we have no other custom, nor do the churches of God.
For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool so that he can become wise.
because you are still worldly. For since there is envy and strife , among you, are you not worldly and behaving like mere humans?
In fact, you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone is arrogant towards you, if someone slaps you in the face.
But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
To be sure, some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of good will.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.
Let no one condemn you by delighting in ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such a person is inflated by empty notions of his unspiritual mind.
He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.
or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith.
They want to be teachers of the law, although they don’t understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on.
He must not be a new convert, or he might become conceited and incur the same condemnation as the devil.
Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to fight about words. This is useless and leads to the ruin of those who listen.
But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, because you know that they breed quarrels.
traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, because they are unprofitable and worthless.
My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
But these people, like irrational animals #– #creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed #– #slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed.
For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.
But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct #– #like irrational animals #– #by these things they are destroyed.
These people are discontented grumblers, living according to their desires; their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage.
For you say, “I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,” and you don’t realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.