1 Timothy 6:4
he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,
1 Timothy 1:4
neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause speculation, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith?
1 Timothy 3:6
not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
1 Timothy 1:7
desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.
2 Timothy 2:14
Remind them of these things, charging them in the presence of God, that they do not argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
2 Timothy 2:23
But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.
2 Timothy 3:4
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
Titus 3:9
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Proverbs 13:7
There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.
Proverbs 25:14
As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
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
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you do not fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Acts 8:9
But 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,
Acts 8:21-23
You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.
Acts 15:2
Therefore 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.
Acts 18:15
but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I do not want to be a judge of these matters."
Romans 2:8
But to those who are self-seeking, and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness -- wrath and anger,
Romans 12:16
Be of the same mind one toward another. Do not be arrogant, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own conceits.
Romans 13:13
Let 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.
Romans 14:1
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
1 Corinthians 3:3
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not walk in the ways of men?
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
1 Corinthians 8:1-2
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 11:16
But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's churches.
1 Corinthians 11:18
For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
2 Corinthians 11:20
For 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.
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you do not consume one another.
Galatians 5:20-21
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
Galatians 5:26
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
Galatians 6:3
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Philippians 1:15
Some indeed proclaim Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
Philippians 2:3
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
Philippians 2:14
Do all things without murmurings and disputes,
Colossians 2:18
Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
2 Thessalonians 2:4
he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
James 1:19
This you know, my beloved brothers. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
James 2:14-18
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
James 4:1-2
Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?
James 4:5-6
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit which he made to dwell in us yearns jealously"?
1 Peter 2:1-2
Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all deceit, and hypocrisy, and envy, and all slander,
2 Peter 2:12
But 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,
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who barely escape from those who live in error;
Jude 1:10
But these speak evil of whatever things they do not know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
Revelation 3:17
Because you say, 'I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;' and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;