1 Timothy 6:4

Such a person is proud and ignorant, fixated on controversies and quarrels that breed envy, strife, slander, and suspicion. False teaching produces a poisonous fruit of conflict.

Cross-references · 40

• 2 Tim 2:23But reject foolish and ignorant speculation, for you know that it breeds quarreling.
• 2 Tim 3:4traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
• 1 Tim 3:6He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.
• Jude 1:10These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
• 2 Tim 2:14Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which succeeds only in leading the listeners to ruin.
• 2 Pet 2:12These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.
• 1 Tim 1:7They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.
• 1 Tim 1:4or devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculation rather than the stewardship of God’s work, which is by faith.
• 2 Pet 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
• Jude 1:16These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.
• Titus 3:9But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.
• Jas 1:19My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
• Acts 15:2And after engaging these men in sharp debate, Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.
• Rom 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
• Phil 2:14Do everything without complaining or arguing,
• 2 Cor 11:20In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.
• Isa 58:4You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.
• 1 Cor 3:3for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
• Phil 1:15It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill.
• Rom 14:1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on his opinions.
• 1 Cor 11:18First of all, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
• Acts 18:15But since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”
• Prov 13:7One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
• Rev 3:17You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
• 2 Th 2:4He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
• Jas 4:1–2What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
• Rom 2:8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
• Gal 5:26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.
• Gal 6:3If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
• Acts 8:9Prior to that time, a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and astounded the people of Samaria. He claimed to be someone great,
• Prov 26:12Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Acts 8:21–23You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
• 1 Cor 8:1–2Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
• 1 Cor 11:16If anyone is inclined to dispute this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.
• Col 2:18Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.
• Gal 5:15But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
• Jas 4:5–6Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
• Gal 5:20–21idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
• Prov 25:14Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.
• Rom 12:16Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but enjoy the company of the lowly. Do not be conceited.

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