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1 Timothy 6:4

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

KJV

τετύφωται, μηδὲν ἐπιστάμενος, ἀλλὰ νοσῶν περὶ ζητήσεις καὶ λογομαχίας, ἐξ ὧν γίνεται φθόνος, ἔρις, βλασφημίαι, ὑπόνοιαι πονηραί,

Greek NT

superbus est, nihil sciens, sed languens circa quæstiones, et pugnas verborum : ex quibus oriuntur invidiæ, contentiones, blasphemiæ, suspiciones malæ,

Vulgate

he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

ASV

He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions,

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

βλασφημία
blasphemia
noun · 18×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
ζήτησις
zetesis
noun · 8×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λογομαχία
logomachia
noun · 1×
μηδείς
medeis
adjective · 92×
νοσέω
noseo
verb · 1×
περί
peri
preposition · 335×
πονηρός
poneros
adjective · 77×
τυφόω
tuphoo
verb · 3×
φθόνος
phthonos
noun · 9×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐπίσταμαι
epistamai
verb · 15×
ἔρις
eris
noun · 9×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὑπόνοια
uponoia
noun · 1×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Doctrine of the rest of the apostles. 1. The Apostle Peter, therefore, after the resurrection of the Lord, and His assumption into the heavens, being desirous of filling up the number of the twelve apostles, and in electing into the place of Judas any substitute who should be chosen by God, thus addressed those who were present: Men [and] brethren, this Scripture must needs hav…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 1:11 — For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
  • 1Cor 13:4 — Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
  • 1Tim 1:4 — Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
  • 1Tim 1:6 — From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
  • 1Tim 1:7 — Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
  • 1Tim 1:7 — Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
  • 1Tim 3:6 — Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
  • 1Tim 3:6 — Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
  • 2Pet 2:12 — 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;
  • 2Pet 2:18 — 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.
  • 2Tim 2:14 — 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.
  • 2Tim 2:14 — 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.
  • 2Tim 2:23 — But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
  • 2Tim 2:23 — But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
  • 2Tim 3:2 — For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
  • 2Tim 3:4 — Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
  • Acts 15:2 — When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and e
  • Acts 18:15 — But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
  • Eph 4:31 — Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
  • Gal 3:1 — O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
  • Gen 31:1 — And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.
  • Jas 1:19 — Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
  • Jas 3:14 — But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
  • Jas 4:1 — From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
  • Jude 1:10 — 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.
  • Jude 1:16 — 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.
  • Phil 2:3 — Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
  • Prov 9:13 — A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
  • Prov 13:10 — Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
  • Ps 31:20 — Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
  • Titus 3:9 — But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.