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2 Timothy 2 14
Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to fight about words. This is useless and leads to the ruin of those who listen.
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1 Timothy 3 6
He must not be a new convert, or he might become conceited and incur the same condemnation as the devil.
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2 Timothy 3 4
traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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2 Timothy 2 23
But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, because you know that they breed quarrels.
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1 Timothy 1 7
They want to be teachers of the law, although they don’t understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on.
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2 Peter 2 12
But these people, like irrational animals— creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed— slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed.
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1 Timothy 1 4
or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan, which operates by faith.
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2 Peter 2 18
For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.
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Jude 1:16
These people are discontented grumblers, living according to their desires; their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage.
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Jude 1:10
But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct— like irrational animals— by these things they are destroyed.
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James 1:19
My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
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Acts 15:2
After Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, Paul and Barnabas and some others were appointed to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this issue.
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Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, because they are unprofitable and worthless.
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Romans 14:1
Welcome anyone who is weak in faith, but don’t argue about disputed matters.
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Isaiah 58:4
You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today, hoping to make your voice heard on high.
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1 Corinthians 3 3
because you are still worldly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not worldly and behaving like mere humans?
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1 Corinthians 11 16
If anyone wants to argue about this, we have no other custom, nor do the churches of God.
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Philippians 1:15
To be sure, some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of good will.
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Proverbs 13:7
One person pretends to be rich but has nothing; another pretends to be poor but has abundant wealth.
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Romans 2:8
but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth while obeying unrighteousness.
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1 Corinthians 3 18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool so that he can become wise.
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2 Thessalonians 2 4
He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.
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Acts 8:9
A man named Simon had previously practiced sorcery in that city and amazed the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great.
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Revelation 3:17
For you say,‘ I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
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James 4:5-6
Or do you think it’s without reason that the Scripture says: The spirit he made to dwell in us envies intensely?But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says: God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.
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Acts 18:15
But if these are questions about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”
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1 Peter 2 1-1 Peter 2 2
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.Like newborn infants, desire the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow up into your salvation,
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Colossians 2:18
Let no one condemn you by delighting in ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such people are inflated by empty notions of their unspiritual mind.
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1 Corinthians 11 18
For to begin with, I hear that when you come together as a church there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
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2 Corinthians 11 20
In fact, you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone is arrogant toward you, if someone slaps you in the face.
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Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
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1 Corinthians 8 1-1 Corinthians 8 2
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that“ we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.If anyone thinks he knows anything, he does not yet know it as he ought to know it.
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Philippians 2:14
Do everything without grumbling and arguing,
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Galatians 5:26
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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Galatians 6:3
For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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Romans 12:16
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud; instead, associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own estimation.
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Acts 8:21-23
You have no part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, your heart’s intent may be forgiven.For I see you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by wickedness.”
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Proverbs 25:14
The one who boasts about a gift that does not exist is like clouds and wind without rain.
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Romans 13:13
Let us walk with decency, as in the daytime: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.
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Philippians 2:3
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.
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Galatians 5:20-21
idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I am warning you about these things— as I warned you before— that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Proverbs 26:12
Do you see a person who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
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James 4:1-2
What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you?You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask.
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James 2:14-18
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him?If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily foodand one of you says to them,“ Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?In the same way faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.But someone will say,“ You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith by my works.