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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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.

not newly converted, lest he become conceited [and] fall into the condemnation of the devil.

There is one who acts rich but {has nothing}; another who pretends to be poor but [has] wealth.

[Like] clouds and wind when there is no rain, [so too is] a man who boasts in a gift of deception.

[Do] you see a man wise in his own eyes? [There is more] hope for a fool than for him.

Now a certain man {named} Simon had been in the city practicing magic and astonishing the people of Samaria, saying he was someone great.

Think the same [thing] toward one another; {do not think arrogantly}, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise {in your own sight}.

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.

Now concerning food sacrificed to idols, we know that "we all have knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

For if anyone thinks he is something [although he] is nothing, he is deceiving himself.

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,

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.

traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God,

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,

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.

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,

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and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause useless speculations rather than God's plan [that is] by faith.

But avoid foolish and uninformed controversies, [because you] know that they produce quarrels.

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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.

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.

but to those [who act] from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.

Let us live decently, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.

Now receive the one who is weak in faith, [but] not for quarrels about opinions.

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?

But if anyone is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

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.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out [that] you are not consumed by one another.

Some even because of envy and strife preach Christ, but some also because of good will.

[Do] nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves,

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and contentions and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and fruitless.

Understand [this], my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

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]?

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?

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

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A woman of foolishness is loud, simple, and does not know {it}.

Cease to listen to instruction, my child, {and you will stray} from sayings of knowledge.

But if anyone ignores [this], he is ignored.

But avoid foolish and uninformed controversies, [because you] know that they produce quarrels.