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 teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor concerning what they affirm.

Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

Whoever boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

But there was a certain man called Simon, who before in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

Be of the same mind one towards another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Now as concerning things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption:

But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

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Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith; so do.

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they gender contentions.

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Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, should go to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness; indignation and wrath:

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

For ye suffer, if a man bringeth you into bondage, if a man devoureth you, if a man taketh from you, if a man exalteth himself, if a man smiteth you on the face.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one by another.

Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife; and some also from good will.

Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

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

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man sayeth he hath faith, and hath not works? can faith save him?

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members?

Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings,

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A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

But if any man is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they gender contentions.