1 Timothy 6:4

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He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

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1 Timothy 1:4

2 Timothy 2:23

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desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they so strenuously affirm.

not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into the fault of the devil.

There is that feigneth himself rich, and hath nothing; there is that maketh himself poor, and hath great wealth.

Clouds and wind without rain, so is a man that boasteth himself of a false gift.

Hast thou seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

But a certain man, by name Simon, had been before in the city, using magic arts, and astonishing the nation of Samaria, saying that himself was some great one.

Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:

Let no one deceive himself: if any one thinks himself to be wise among you in this world, let him become foolish, that he may be wise.

But concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge: knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

For if any man reputes himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself;

Let no one fraudulently deprive you of your prize, doing his own will in humility and worship of angels, entering into things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

But these, as natural animals without reason, made to be caught and destroyed, speaking injuriously in things they are ignorant of, shall also perish in their own corruption,

But these, whatever things they know not, they speak railingly against; but what even, as the irrational animals, they understand by mere nature, in these things they corrupt themselves.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and am grown rich, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art the wretched and the miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked;

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nor to turn their minds to fables and interminable genealogies, which bring questionings rather than further God's dispensation, which is in faith.

But foolish and senseless questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions.

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Behold, ye have fasted for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness; ye do not at present fast, to cause your voice to be heard on high.

A commotion therefore having taken place, and no small discussion on the part of Paul and Barnabas against them, they arranged that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others from amongst them, should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation,

As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation.

Now him that is weak in the faith receive, not to the determining of questions of reasoning.

for ye are yet carnal. For whereas there are among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

But if any one think to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the assemblies of God.

For ye bear if any one bring you into bondage, if any one devour you, if any one get your money, if any one exalt himself, if any one beat you on the face.

but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.

Some indeed also for envy and strife, but some also for good will, preach the Christ.

let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;

But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and contentions about the law, shun; for they are unprofitable and vain.

So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

What is the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? can faith save him?

Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,

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The foolish woman is clamorous; she is stupid, and knoweth nothing.

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction which causeth to stray from the words of knowledge.

But if any be ignorant, let him be ignorant.

But foolish and senseless questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions.