1 Timothy 6:4
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4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,
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2 Timothy 2:23
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23 But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife.
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2 Timothy 3:4
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4 (A)traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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1 Timothy 3:6
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6 not a [a]novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
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- 1 Timothy 3:6 new convert
Jude 10
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10 (A)But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.
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2 Peter 2:12
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Depravity of False Teachers
12 But these, (A)like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,
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2 Timothy 2:14
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Approved and Disapproved Workers
14 Remind them of these things, (A)charging them before the Lord not to [a]strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.
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- 2 Timothy 2:14 battle
Jude 16
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Apostates Predicted
16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they (A)mouth great swelling words, (B)flattering people to gain advantage.
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2 Peter 2:18
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Deceptions of False Teachers
18 For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who [a]have actually escaped from those who live in error.
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- 2 Peter 2:18 NU are barely escaping
1 Timothy 1:7
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7 desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.
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1 Timothy 1:4
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4 (A)nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith.
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James 1:19
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Qualities Needed in Trials
19 [a]So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, (A)slow to speak, (B)slow to wrath;
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- James 1:19 NU Know this or This you know
Titus 3:9
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Avoid Dissension
9 But (A)avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.
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Acts 15:2
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2 Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, they determined that (A)Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question.
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Revelation 3:17
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17 Because you say, (A)‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—
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1 Peter 2:1-2
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Our Inheritance Through Christ’s Blood
2 Therefore, (A)laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2 (B)as newborn babes, desire the pure (C)milk of the word, that you may grow [a]thereby,
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- 1 Peter 2:2 NU adds up to salvation
James 4:5-6
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5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, (A)“The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?
6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says:
(B)“God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:1-2
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Pride Promotes Strife
4 Where do [a]wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure (A)that war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and [b]war. [c]Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
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James 2:14-18
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Faith Without Works Is Dead(A)
14 (B)What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 (C)If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and (D)one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” (E)Show me your faith without [a]your works, (F)and I will show you my faith by [b]my works.
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- James 2:18 NU omits your
- James 2:18 NU omits my
2 Thessalonians 2:4
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4 who opposes and (A)exalts himself (B)above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits [a]as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
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- 2 Thessalonians 2:4 NU omits as God
Colossians 2:18
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18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has [a]not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
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- Colossians 2:18 NU omits not
Philippians 2:14
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14 Do all things (A)without [a]complaining and (B)disputing,[b]
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- Philippians 2:14 grumbling
- Philippians 2:14 arguing
Philippians 2:3
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3 (A)Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but (B)in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.
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Philippians 1:15
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15 Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from goodwill:
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Galatians 6:3
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3 For (A)if anyone thinks himself to be something, when (B)he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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