1 Timothy 6:4
New International Version
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
1 Timothy 6:4
King James Version
4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
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2 Timothy 2:23
New International Version
23 Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels.(A)
2 Timothy 2:23
King James Version
23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
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2 Timothy 3:4
New International Version
2 Timothy 3:4
King James Version
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
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1 Timothy 3:6
New International Version
6 He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited(A) and fall under the same judgment(B) as the devil.
1 Timothy 3:6
King James Version
6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
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Jude 10
New International Version
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)
Jude 10
King James Version
10 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.
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2 Peter 2:12
New International Version
12 But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish.(A)
2 Peter 2:12
King James Version
12 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;
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2 Timothy 2:14
New International Version
Dealing With False Teachers
14 Keep reminding God’s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words;(A) it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen.
2 Timothy 2:14
King James Version
14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
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Jude 16
New International Version
16 These people are grumblers(A) and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires;(B) they boast(C) about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.
Jude 16
King James Version
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
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2 Peter 2:18
New International Version
18 For they mouth empty, boastful words(A) and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping(B) from those who live in error.
2 Peter 2:18
King James Version
18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
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1 Timothy 1:7
New International Version
7 They want to be teachers(A) of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.(B)
1 Timothy 1:7
King James Version
7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
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1 Timothy 1:4
New International Version
4 or to devote themselves to myths(A) and endless genealogies.(B) Such things promote controversial speculations(C) rather than advancing God’s work—which is by faith.
1 Timothy 1:4
King James Version
4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
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James 1:19
New International Version
Listening and Doing
19 My dear brothers and sisters,(A) take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak(B) and slow to become angry,
James 1:19
King James Version
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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Titus 3:9
New International Version
9 But avoid(A) foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels(B) about the law,(C) because these are unprofitable and useless.(D)
Titus 3:9
King James Version
9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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