1 Timothy 6:4
he is full of pride and ignorance, touch'd with a spirit of chicanery and wrangling, productive of envy, contention, calumny,
1 Timothy 1:4
or trouble their heads with fables and endless genealogies, which rather promote disputes than the gospel-dispensation:
1 Timothy 3:6
nor must he be a new convert; for fear he should be elated with pride, and so involve himself in the same ruin as the devil.
1 Timothy 1:7
pretending to be doctors of the law, tho' they neither understand what they advance, nor upon what it is founded.
2 Timothy 2:14
These things represent, conjuring them by the presence of the Lord, to avoid disputes about words, which only serve to pervert the audience.
2 Timothy 2:23
decline all impertinent barren disputes, since they only serve for contention.
2 Timothy 3:4
cruel, enemies to virtue, traitors, insolent, conceited, and more devoted to pleasure than to piety:
Titus 3:9
but avoid frivolous enquiries about genealogies, and vexatious disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Acts 8:9
One Simon was then resident in that place, who pretended to be something extra-ordinary, and by his magical practices had so enchanted the people of Samaria,
Acts 8:21-23
thou hast no manner of share in this gift: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
Acts 15:2
upon which Paul and Barnabas having warmly contested the point with them, it was resolved, that Paul and Barnabas and some others should go to Jerusalem to consult the apostles upon this question.
Acts 18:15
but since it is about disputable matters, about names, and your own law, you may decide that among yourselves: for I won't take cognizance of such affairs."
Romans 2:8
but unto those who are contentious, and do not yield to the truth, but give way to injustice, indignation and wrath,
Romans 12:16
have the same respect for one another. let not your behaviour be haughty, but soften'd to the condition of those below you. be not wise in your own conceits.
Romans 13:13
let us behave with decency as in open view; not with rioting and drunkenness, not with lewdness and brutality, not with strife and envy.
Romans 14:1
A weak convert receive as a friend without regard to any difference of opinion.
1 Corinthians 3:3
for you are still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?
1 Corinthians 3:18
let no man deceive himself: if any among you pretends to worldly wisdom, let him commence fool, in order to be truly wise.
1 Corinthians 8:1-2
Now as to things offered to idols, 'tis certain that the knowledge you all pretend to have, swells you with pride, but 'tis charity that edifieth.
1 Corinthians 11:16
but if any man has a mind to be contentious, I answer, we have no such custom, nor any of the churches of God.
1 Corinthians 11:18
for first, I hear, that when you come together in the church, you fall into parties; and I believe it is true of some of you.
2 Corinthians 11:20
if a man impose upon you, if he preys upon you, if he makes a gain of you, if a man insults you, if he disgracefully assaults you, I mean it as to their reproaches, you take it all;
Galatians 5:15
but if you bite and tear one another, take heed that you be not consumed by one another.
Galatians 5:20-21
brutality, idolatry, poisoning, enmities, quarrels, emulations, animosities, strife, seditions, factions, envyings,
Galatians 5:26
let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 6:3
for if a man thinks himself to be considerable, when he is not, he deceives himself.
Philippians 1:15
it is true, there are some who preach Christ out of a spirit of envy and contention; but others do it out of pure affection.
Philippians 2:3
Do nothing out of a spirit of contention, or for vain-glory, but modestly look upon others as if they were better than yourselves.
Philippians 2:14
do every thing without murmuring and disputes:
Colossians 2:18
Let no man condemn you, from an affectation of humility, in worshipping of Angels, boldly prying into matters which he knows nothing of, being vainly puft up with his Jewish conceits:
2 Thessalonians 2:4
that adversary that exalts it self above the divine authority of majesty: that is seated in the temple of God, pretending to be it self divine.
James 1:19
Wherefore, my dear brethren, let every one be eager to hear, averse to contradiction, and deaf to passion.
James 2:14-18
What advantage is it, my brethren, for a man to say he has faith, if he has no beneficence? can such a faith save him?
James 4:1-2
you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.
James 4:5-6
or do you imagine that passage of scripture to be insignificant, "does the spirit that dwells in you, incite you to vice?"
1 Peter 2:1-2
Renouncing therefore every kind of malice, and knavery, hypocrisy, envy, and detraction, as new-born infants desire that mystical milk,
2 Peter 2:12
But as for these, they have no more reason than brute beasts that are naturally made for hunting, and slaughter: so these who calumniate what they do not understand, shall receive the reward of their iniquity by perishing in their own corruption.
2 Peter 2:18
when their language swells with vanity, by applying to the sensual passions of the licentious, they allure those who were escap'd for a while, from such deceivers:
Jude 1:10
As for these, they inveigh against what they do not understand: and abuse those natural instincts which regulate brute animals.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, who pursue their own passions: their language swells with flattery, which they offer to the personages of men from a prospect of gain.
Revelation 3:17
you say you are rich, and have increased your gain, and have need of nothing; but you do not consider that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.