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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They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently.

He must not be a recent convert or he may become arrogant and fall into the punishment that the devil will exact.

There is one who pretends to be rich and yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor and yet possesses great wealth.

Like cloudy skies and wind that produce no rain, so is the one who boasts of a gift not given.

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

Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

With regard to 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 when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God's temple, displaying himself as God.

treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.

But these men, like irrational animals -- creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed -- do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

Because you say, "I am rich and have acquired great wealth, and need nothing," but do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked,

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nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God's redemptive plan that operates by faith.

But reject foolish and ignorant controversies, because you know they breed infighting.

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Look, your fasting is accompanied by arguments, brawls, and fistfights. Do not fast as you do today, trying to make your voice heard in heaven.

When Paul and Barnabas had a major argument and debate with them, the church appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to meet with the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this point of disagreement.

but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions.

for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

If anyone intends to quarrel about this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him?

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

So get rid of all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

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The woman called Folly is brash, she is naive and does not know anything.

If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

If someone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.

But reject foolish and ignorant controversies, because you know they breed infighting.