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 foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
• 2 Tim 3:4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
• 1 Tim 3:6Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
• Jude 1:10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
• 2 Tim 2:14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
• 2 Pet 2:12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
• 1 Tim 1:7Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
• 1 Tim 1:4Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
• 2 Pet 2:18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
• Jude 1:16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
• Titus 3:9But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
• Jas 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Acts 15:2When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
• Rom 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
• Phil 2:14Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
• 2 Cor 11:20For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
• Isa 58:4Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
• 1 Cor 3:3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
• Phil 1:15Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
• Rom 14:1Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
• 1 Cor 11:18For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
• Acts 18:15But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
• Prov 13:7There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
• Rev 3:17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
• 2 Th 2:4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
• Jas 4:1–2From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
• Rom 2:8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
• Gal 5:26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
• Gal 6:3For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
• Acts 8:9But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
• Prov 26:12Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
• Acts 8:21–23Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
• 1 Cor 8:1–2Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
• 1 Cor 11:16But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
• Col 2:18Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
• Gal 5:15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
• Jas 4:5–6Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
• Gal 5:20–21Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
• Prov 25:14Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
• Rom 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

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