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2 Timothy 2 14
Remind them of these things, charging them before God not to fight about words; this is in no way profitable and leads to the ruin of the hearers.
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1 Timothy 3 6
He must not be a new convert, or he might become conceited and fall into the condemnation of 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, knowing 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— speak blasphemies about things they don’t 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, walking 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 don’t understand. What they know by instinct like unreasoning animals— they destroy themselves with these things.
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James 1:19
My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
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Acts 15:2
But after Paul and Barnabas had engaged them in serious argument and debate, the church arranged for Paul and Barnabas and some others of them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this controversy.
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Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
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Romans 14:1
Accept anyone who is weak in faith, but don’t argue about doubtful issues.
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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 fleshly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and living like unbelievers?
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1 Corinthians 11 16
But 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 strife, but others out of good will.
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Proverbs 13:7
One man pretends to be rich but has nothing; another pretends to be poor but has great wealth.
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Romans 2:8
but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth but are obeying unrighteousness;
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1 Corinthians 3 18
No one should deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks he is wise in this age, he must become foolish 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 sanctuary, publicizing that he himself is God.
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Acts 8:9
A man named Simon had previously practiced sorcery in that city and astounded the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great.
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Revelation 3:17
Because you say,‘ I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t know 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 the Scripture says that the Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously?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 don’t want to be a judge of such things.”
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1 Peter 2 1-1 Peter 2 2
So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.Like newborn infants, desire the pure spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it for your salvation,
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Colossians 2:18
Let no one disqualify you, insisting on ascetic practices and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated without cause by his 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 devours you, if someone captures you, if someone dominates you, or if someone hits 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
About food offered to idols: We know that“ we all have knowledge.” Knowledge inflates with pride, 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
We must 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
Be in agreement 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 the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.For I see you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”
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Proverbs 25:14
The man 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 daylight: 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 rivalry 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 tell you about these things in advance— as I told 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 man 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 the cravings that are at war within you?You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.
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James 2:14-18
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can his faith save him?If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily foodand one of you says to them,“ Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?In the same way faith, if it doesn’t 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 from my works.