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 refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
• 2 Tim 3:4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
• 1 Tim 3:6not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
• Jude 1:10But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
• 2 Tim 2:14Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
• 2 Pet 2:12But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
• 1 Tim 1:7desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
• 1 Tim 1:4and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith —
• 2 Pet 2:18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
• Jude 1:16These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
• Titus 3:9but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
• Jas 1:19So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
• Acts 15:2Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
• Rom 13:13Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
• Phil 2:14Do all things without murmurings and disputes,
• 2 Cor 11:20For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
• Isa 58:4Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
• 1 Cor 3:3for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
• Phil 1:15Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
• Rom 14:1Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
• 1 Cor 11:18For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
• Acts 18:15but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don’t want to be a judge of these matters.”
• Prov 13:7There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
• Rev 3:17Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
• 2 Th 2:4he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
• Jas 4:1–2Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
• Rom 2:8but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
• Gal 5:26Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
• Gal 6:3For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
• Acts 8:9But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,
• Prov 26:12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Acts 8:21–23You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.
• 1 Cor 8:1–2Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
• 1 Cor 11:16But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.
• Col 2:18Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
• Gal 5:15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
• Jas 4:5–6Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
• Gal 5:20–21idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
• Prov 25:14As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
• Rom 12:16Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

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