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1 Timothy 6:4
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1 Timothy 6:4
4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
4Hee is ‖proud, knowing nothing, but ‖doting about questions, and strifes of wordes, whereof commeth enuie, strife, railings, euill surmisings,
- Or, a foole.
- Or, sicke.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Timothy 6:4
Having an unduly high opinion of oneself; haughty or self-exalting.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Perceiving, understanding, recognizing, or being acquainted with; also having knowledge or skill.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
No thing; not anything; of no value or effect.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Except; excluding all others or alternatives.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Regarding with excessive fondness.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Around, concerning, near, or engaged in; on every side or approximately, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Matters asked, examined, or disputed; inquiries or subjects of debate.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Of which; of what.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 (facsimile-linked witness) · Strong's Exhaustive Concordance 1890 (occurrence-specific) · KJV usage (PCE)
Resentful desire at another's good; as a verb, to feel such jealousy.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Abusive, reproachful, or blasphemous speeches against others.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study23But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
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Open the full verse study4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
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Open the full verse study6Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
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Open the full verse study12But 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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Open the full verse study14Of 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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Open the full verse study10But 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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Open the full verse study4Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
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Open the full verse study7Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
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Open the full verse study18For 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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Open the full verse study16These 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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Open the full verse study19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
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Open the full verse study9But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
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Open the full verse study2When 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 elders about this question.
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Open the full verse study16But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
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Open the full verse study18For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
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Open the full verse study18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
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Open the full verse study3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
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Open the full verse study1NOW as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
2And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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Open the full verse study1WHEREFORE laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
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Open the full verse study20For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
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Open the full verse study4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
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Open the full verse study15But 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.
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Open the full verse study21Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
22Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
23For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
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Open the full verse study9But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
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Open the full verse study18Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
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Open the full verse study15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
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Open the full verse study20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Open the full verse study26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
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Open the full verse study3For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
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Open the full verse study4Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
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Open the full verse study14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
15If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
17Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
18Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
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Open the full verse study1FROM whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
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Open the full verse study5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
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Open the full verse study15Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
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Open the full verse study14Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
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Open the full verse study3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
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Open the full verse study7There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
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Open the full verse study14Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
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Open the full verse study12Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
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Open the full verse study17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
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Open the full verse study16Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
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Open the full verse study13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
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Open the full verse study1HIM that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
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Open the full verse study8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
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