1 Timothy 6:4
he is conceited, understanding nothing, but having a morbid interest concerning controversies and disputes about words, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,
1 Timothy 1:4
and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause useless speculations rather than God's plan [that is] by faith.
1 Timothy 3:6
not newly converted, lest he become conceited [and] fall into the condemnation of the devil.
1 Timothy 1:7
wanting to be teachers of the law, [although they] do not understand either [the things] which they are saying or [the things] concerning which they are speaking confidently.
2 Timothy 2:14
Remind [people] of these [things], solemnly urging [them] before the Lord not to dispute about words. [This is] in no way beneficial [and leads to] the ruin of the hearers.
2 Timothy 2:23
But avoid foolish and uninformed controversies, [because you] know that they produce quarrels.
2 Timothy 3:4
traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God,
Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and contentions and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and fruitless.
Proverbs 13:7
There is one who acts rich but {has nothing}; another who pretends to be poor but [has] wealth.
Proverbs 25:14
[Like] clouds and wind when there is no rain, [so too is] a man who boasts in a gift of deception.
Proverbs 26:12
[Do] you see a man wise in his own eyes? [There is more] hope for a fool than for him.
Isaiah 58:4
Look! You fast to quarrel and strife, and to strike with a {wicked fist}. You shall not fast as [you do] {today}, to {make your voice heard} on the height.
Acts 8:9
Now a certain man {named} Simon had been in the city practicing magic and astonishing the people of Samaria, saying he was someone great.
Acts 8:21-23
{You have no} part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.
Acts 15:2
And [after] there was no little strife and debate by Paul and Barnabas against them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this issue.
Acts 18:15
But if it is questions concerning a word and names and {your own law}, see to [it] yourselves! I do not wish to be a judge of these [things]."
Romans 2:8
but to those [who act] from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.
Romans 12:16
Think the same [thing] toward one another; {do not think arrogantly}, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise {in your own sight}.
Romans 13:13
Let us live decently, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.
Romans 14:1
Now receive the one who is weak in faith, [but] not for quarrels about opinions.
1 Corinthians 3:3
for you are still fleshly. For where [there is] jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not live like [unregenerate] people?
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks [himself] to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, in order that he may become wise.
1 Corinthians 8:1-2
Now concerning food sacrificed to idols, we know that "we all have knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 11:16
But if anyone is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.
1 Corinthians 11:18
For in the first place, [when you] come together as a church, I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
2 Corinthians 11:20
For you put up with [it] if someone enslaves you, if someone devours [you], if someone takes advantage of [you], if someone is presumptious [toward you], if someone strikes you in the face.
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, watch out [that] you are not consumed by one another.
Galatians 5:20-21
idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, factions,
Galatians 5:26
We must not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 6:3
For if anyone thinks he is something [although he] is nothing, he is deceiving himself.
Philippians 1:15
Some even because of envy and strife preach Christ, but some also because of good will.
Philippians 2:3
[Do] nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves,
Philippians 2:14
Do all [things] without grumbling and disputing,
Colossians 2:18
Let no one condemn you, taking pleasure in humility and the worship of angels, going into detail [about] [the things] which he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,
2 Thessalonians 2:4
who opposes and who exalts himself over every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits down in the temple of God, proclaiming that he himself is God.
James 1:19
Understand [this], my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
James 2:14-18
What [is] the benefit, my brothers, if someone says [that he] has faith but does not have works? That faith [is] not able to save him, [is it]?
James 4:1-2
From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?
James 4:5-6
Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, "The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously"?
1 Peter 2:1-2
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,
2 Peter 2:12
But these persons, like irrational animals born [only with] natural [instincts] for capture and killing, blaspheming {about things} they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed,
2 Peter 2:18
{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,
Jude 1:10
But these persons blaspheme all that they do not understand, and all that they understand by instinct like the irrational animals, by these [things] they are being destroyed.
Jude 1:16
These [people] are grumblers, discontented, proceeding according to their desires, and their mouths speaking pompous [words], {showing partiality to gain an advantage}.
Revelation 3:17
Because you are saying, "I am rich, and have become rich, and I have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked,