2 Timothy 2:14
Always call these truths to men's mind; adjuring them in the presence of God to avoid controversy. It is a useless thing, and subverts those who listen to it.
2 Timothy 2:23
Ever shun foolish and puerile discussions, for you know that they lead to quarrels.
1 Timothy 5:21
I charge you solemnly in the presence of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice against any man, and do nothing out of partiality.
1 Timothy 6:13
In the presence of God who gives life to all, and of Christ Jesus who bore witness to the good confession before Pontius Pilate,
2 Timothy 2:16
but avoid profane babble; for people will go farther and farther in impiety,
2 Timothy 4:1
I adjure you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and the dead??y his appearing and his kingdom, I adjure you??2 proclaim the message, be urgent in season and out of season; convince, rebuke, encourage, with never-failing patience and teaching.
Hebrews 13:9
Do not allow yourselves to be swept away by various and strange teachings. For it is a beautiful thing to be established in heart by grace, and not by regulations regarding food, from which those that occupied themselves with them have derived no benefit.
Matthew 16:26
What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Acts 13:10
"O full of all craft and cunning, you son of the devil! You enemy of all goodness! Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?
Acts 15:24
"as we have heard that some of your number who went out from us have troubled you with words and upset your souls, without having received any such instruction from us;
Romans 14:1
Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of deciding doubtful points.
Galatians 1:7
for another gospel, which indeed is not another; only there are certain individuals who are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.
Ephesians 4:17
This then I tell you and implore you in the Master's name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds;
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God??nd you are actually doing so??hat you abound in it yet more and more.
2 Thessalonians 3:6
I summon you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who leads an idle and disorderly life, which is not according to the rule you received from me.
1 Timothy 1:4
nor to be paying attention to myths and interminable genealogies, which tend to promote discussions rather than a stewardship entrusted by God, a stewardship which is in faith.
1 Timothy 1:6
Some have failed here, and have turned aside to empty argument.
1 Timothy 4:8
For physical training is of some small service, but godliness is of service in everything; since it carries with it a promise of life, both here and hereafter.
1 Timothy 6:4-5
he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,
2 Timothy 1:6
For this reason let me remind you to keep ever blazing that gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
Titus 3:9-11
But avoid foolish questionings and genealogies and dissensions and wranglings about the law; for these are unprofitable and empty.
2 Peter 1:13
So I think it right, as long as I am in this "tent," to rouse you by way of reminding you,