1 Timothy 6:4
he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but doting about disputes and word controversies, from which develop envy, strife, revilings, evil surmisings,
1 Timothy 1:4
nor to heed myths and endless genealogies, which cause controversies rather than stewardship of God in faith.
1 Timothy 3:6
not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the devil.
1 Timothy 1:7
desiring to be law teachers, understanding neither what they say, nor about what they confidently assert.
2 Timothy 2:14
Remind them of these things, solemnly testifying in the sight of the Lord, not to brawl verbally, to nothing useful, to the ruin of those who hear.
2 Timothy 2:23
But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels.
2 Timothy 3:4
traitors, reckless, beclouded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,
Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questionings, and genealogies, and contentions, and legal fightings, for they are useless and vain.
Proverbs 13:7
There is he who makes himself rich, yet has nothing, [and] he who makes himself poor, yet [has] great wealth.
Proverbs 25:14
Clouds and wind without rain, [is] he who boasts himself of his gifts falsely.
Proverbs 26:12
See thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.
Isaiah 58:4
Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Ye do not fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Acts 8:9
But a certain man in the city, Simon by name, was formerly practicing sorcery, and fascinating the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be some great man,
Acts 8:21-23
There is no part nor lot for thee in this matter, for thy heart is not straight in the sight of God.
Acts 15:2
Therefore, no small dissension and debate having developed with Paul and Barnabus against them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some other men from them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about thi
Acts 18:15
But if it is an issue about a word and names and the law from you, look ye yourselves, for I do not intend to be a judge of these things.
Romans 2:8
but to those of self-interest, and who indeed disobey the truth but have confidence in unrighteousness--anger and wrath,
Romans 12:16
thinking the same way toward each other, not thinking on lofty things, but accommodating to the lowly. Become not wise according to yourselves,
Romans 13:13
Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.
Romans 14:1
But the man who is weak in the faith, do not receive for arguments of opinions.
1 Corinthians 3:3
for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let not one man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he may become wise.
1 Corinthians 8:1-2
Now about the things sacrificed to idols. We know that all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 11:16
But if any man appears to be a lover of strife, we have no such custom, nor the congregations of God.
1 Corinthians 11:18
For indeed first, when ye come together in a congregation, I hear divisions are present among you, and I partly believe it.
2 Corinthians 11:20
For ye tolerate it if some man enslaves you, if some man devours you, if some man seizes you, if some man lifts himself up, if some man strikes you on the face.
Galatians 5:15
But if ye bite and devour each other, watch out that ye be not consumed by each other.
Galatians 5:20-21
idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, wraths, selfish ambitions, dissentions, factions,
Galatians 5:26
Let us not become conceited, provoking each other, envying each other.
Galatians 6:3
For if some man presumes to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Philippians 1:15
Actually some also preach the Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good-will.
Philippians 2:3
in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves.
Philippians 2:14
Do all things without grumblings and arguments,
Colossians 2:18
Let no man umpire against you insisting on self-mortification, and worship of the heavenly agents, intruding in things that he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,
2 Thessalonians 2:4
who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or an object of worship, so as for him to sit in the temple of God, as God, displaying himself that he is God.
James 1:19
Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
James 2:14-18
What is the benefit, my brothers, if some man should say to have faith, but has no works? Can the faith save him?
James 4:1-2
From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?
James 4:5-6
Or think ye that the scripture says vainly, The spirit that he caused to dwell in us yearns with jealousy?
1 Peter 2:1-2
Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,
2 Peter 2:12
But these men, like irrational beasts of nature, having been born for capture and destruction, speaking evil at which things they do not understand, will be destroyed in their corruption,
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering swollen things of vanity, they entice (to sensuality by lusts of flesh) those who actually escaped from those who live in error,
Jude 1:10
But these men indeed revile whatever they have not seen. But whatever they understand naturally, as the irrational beasts, in these things they are corrupted.
Jude 1:16
These are grumblers, fault-finders, going according to their lusts, and their mouth speaks overblown things, marveling personages for the sake of advantage.
Revelation 3:17
Because thou say, I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and do not know that thou are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.