1 Timothy 6:4

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Summary

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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willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

There is who is making himself rich, and hath nothing, Who is making himself poor, and wealth is abundant.

Clouds and wind, and rain there is none, Is a man boasting himself in a false gift.

Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!

And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one,

of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

for if any one doth think himself to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;

let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and in worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God -- the day doth not come.

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed -- in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil -- in their destruction shall be destroyed,

and these, as many things indeed as they have not known, they speak evil of; and as many things as naturally (as the irrational beasts) they understand, in these they are corrupted;

because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,

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nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

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Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as to -day, To sound in the high place your voice.

there having been, therefore, not a little dissension and disputation to Paul and Barnabas with them, they arranged for Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up unto the apostles and elders to Jerusalem about this question,

and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye -- not to determinations of reasonings;

for yet ye are fleshly, for where there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.

for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;

and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.

Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

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A foolish woman is noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.

Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.

and if any one is ignorant -- let him be ignorant;

and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,