⁴ they are conceited^(A) and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words^(B) that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions

²³ Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels.^(A)

⁴ treacherous,^(A) rash, conceited,^(B) lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—

⁶ He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited^(A) and fall under the same judgment^(B) as the devil.

¹⁰ Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.^(A)