1 Timothy 6:4
he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but is driven mad concerning questions and controversy of words, of which comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
1 Timothy 1:4
nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which generate questions other than that the edification of God is by faith.
1 Timothy 3:6
not a novice, lest being puffed up, he fall into judgment of the devil.
1 Timothy 1:7
desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor from where they affirm.
2 Timothy 2:14
Counsel these things, charging them before the Lord. Strive not in words that profit nothing, but rather subvert the hearers.
2 Timothy 2:23
But foolish and unwise questions refuse, knowing that they do beget contentions.
2 Timothy 3:4
traitors, rash, puffed up, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,
Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and debates concerning the law, for they are unprofitable and vain.
Proverbs 13:7
There are those that make themselves rich, yet have nothing: there are those that make themselves poor, yet have great riches.
Proverbs 25:14
Whosoever boasts in a gift of falsehood is like clouds and wind without rain.
Proverbs 26:12
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Isaiah 58:4
Behold, 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.
Acts 8:9
But there was a certain man called Simon, who before this in the same city used magic arts and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that he himself was some great one,
Acts 8:21-23
Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter, for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
Acts 15:2
When 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.
Acts 18:15
but if it is a question of words and names and of your law, look ye to it, for I will be no judge of such matters.
Romans 2:8
but unto those that are contentious and do not obey the truth, but are persuaded by unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.
Romans 12:16
Be unanimous among yourselves, not high minded, but accommodating the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.
Romans 13:13
Let us walk honestly, as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Romans 14:1
Bear with the one who is sick in the faith, but not unto doubtful discernment.
1 Corinthians 3:3
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men?
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you seems to be wise in this age, let them become a fool that they may be wise.
1 Corinthians 8:1-2
Now as concerning things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but charity edifies.
1 Corinthians 11:16
With all this, if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the congregation of God.
1 Corinthians 11:18
For first of all, when ye come together in the congregation , I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
2 Corinthians 11:20
For ye suffer it if anyone brings you into bondage, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes of you, if anyone exalts himself, if anyone smites you on the face.
Galatians 5:15
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye are not consumed one of another.
Galatians 5:20-21
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Galatians 5:26
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 6:3
For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Philippians 1:15
Some indeed preach the Christ even out of envy and strife, but others also out of good will.
Philippians 2:3
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in humility let each esteem others better than themselves,
Philippians 2:14
Do all things without murmurings and doubts,
Colossians 2:18
Let no one govern you according to their own will under pretext of humility and religion of angels, intruding into those things which they have not seen, vainly puffed up by their fleshly mind,
2 Thessalonians 2:4
opposing and exalting himself against all that is called God, or divinity, so that he as God sits in the temple of God, making himself appear to be God.
James 1:19
Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
James 2:14-18
My brethren, What shall it profit though someone says that they have faith and do not have works? Shall this type of faith be able to save them?
James 4:1-2
Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? From here that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?
James 4:5-6
Do ye think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us lusts to envy?
1 Peter 2:1-2
Having therefore left all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and all murmurings,
2 Peter 2:12
But these, speaking evil of the things that they do not understand (as natural animals without reason, who are made to be taken and destroyed), shall utterly perish in their own corruption,
2 Peter 2:18
For speaking arrogant words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from those who converse in error,
Jude 1:10
But these speak evil of those things which they do not know; but what they know by nature as animals without reason, in those things they corrupt themselves.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own desires; and their mouth speaks arrogant things, admiring persons to take advantage.
Revelation 3:17
Because 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,