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They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions <a href="/nlt/1_timothy/6.htm">New Living Translation</a> Anyone who teaches something different is arrogant and lacks understanding. Such a person has an unhealthy desire to quibble over the meaning of words. This stirs up arguments ending in jealousy, division, slander, and evil suspicions. <a href="/esv/1_timothy/6.htm">English Standard Version</a> he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, <a href="/bsb/1_timothy/6.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and disputes about words, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions, <a href="/blb/1_timothy/6.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but unhealthy about controversies and disputes about words, out of which come envy, strife, slander, evil suspicions, <a href="/kjv/1_timothy/6.htm">King James Bible</a> He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, <a href="/nkjv/1_timothy/6.htm">New King James Version</a> he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, <a href="/nasb_/1_timothy/6.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a sick craving for controversial questions and disputes about words, from which come envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, <a href="/nasb/1_timothy/6.htm">NASB 1995</a> he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, <a href="/nasb77/1_timothy/6.htm">NASB 1977 </a> he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, <a href="/lsb/1_timothy/6.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> he is conceited, understanding nothing but having a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, slander, evil suspicions, <a href="/amp/1_timothy/6.htm">Amplified Bible</a> he is conceited and woefully ignorant [understanding nothing]. He has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, which produces envy, quarrels, verbal abuse, evil suspicions, <a href="/csb/1_timothy/6.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarreling, slander, evil suspicions, <a href="/hcsb/1_timothy/6.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> he is conceited, understanding nothing, but has a sick interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarreling, slander, evil suspicions, <a href="/asv/1_timothy/6.htm">American Standard Version</a> he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, <a href="/cev/1_timothy/6.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Those people who disagree are proud of themselves, but they don't really know a thing. Their minds are sick, and they like to argue over words. They cause jealousy, disagreements, unkind words, evil suspicions, <a href="/erv/1_timothy/6.htm">English Revised Version</a> he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, <a href="/gwt/1_timothy/6.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> is a conceited person. He shows that he doesn't understand anything. Rather, he has an unhealthy desire to argue and quarrel about words. This produces jealousy, rivalry, cursing, suspicion, <a href="/gnt/1_timothy/6.htm">Good News Translation</a> is swollen with pride and knows nothing. He has an unhealthy desire to argue and quarrel about words, and this brings on jealousy, disputes, insults, evil suspicions, <a href="/isv/1_timothy/6.htm">International Standard Version</a> he is a conceited person and does not understand anything. He has an unhealthy craving for arguments and debates. This produces jealousy, rivalry, slander, evil suspicions, <a href="/msb/1_timothy/6.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and disputes about words, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions, <a href="/net/1_timothy/6.htm">NET Bible</a> he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions, <a href="/nheb/1_timothy/6.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, <a href="/wbt/1_timothy/6.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, from which cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, <a href="/wey/1_timothy/6.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> he is puffed up with pride and has no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words which give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions, <a href="/web/1_timothy/6.htm">World English Bible</a> he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions, <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/1_timothy/6.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> he is proud, knowing nothing, but unhealthy about questions and word-striving, out of which come envy, strife, slanders, evil-surmisings, <a href="/blb/1_timothy/6.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but unhealthy about controversies and disputes about words, out of which come envy, strife, slander, evil suspicions, <a href="/ylt/1_timothy/6.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings, <a href="/slt/1_timothy/6.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures,<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/1_timothy/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions, <a href="/cpdv/1_timothy/6.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> then he is arrogant, knowing nothing, yet languishing amid the questions and quarrels of words. From these arise envy, contention, blasphemy, evil suspicions: <a href="/nabre/1_timothy/6.htm">New American Bible</a> is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid disposition for arguments and verbal disputes. From these come envy, rivalry, insults, evil suspicions, <a href="/nrsvce/1_timothy/6.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words. From these come envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/1_timothy/6.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> He is proud, knowing nothing, and dotes on an argument and quarrels on the use of a word and this is the cause of envy and controversy and blasphemy and evil premeditation, <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/1_timothy/6.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> This one is lifted up as he knows nothing, but he is ineffective in disputes and debates of words, from which come envy, contention and blasphemy, and establishes evil thoughts,<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/1_timothy/6.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> he is mad with conceit, knowing nothing, but has a morbid fondness for questions and contentions about words, out of which come envy, strife, railing, evil suspicions, <a href="/godbey/1_timothy/6.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> he has been inflated, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and controversies, from which come envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings, <a href="/haweis/1_timothy/6.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> he is conceited, knowing nothing, but delirious with disputes and quarrels about words, from whence come wrath, contentions, evil speakings, wrong suspicions, <a href="/mace/1_timothy/6.htm">Mace New Testament</a> he is full of pride and ignorance, touch'd with a spirit of chicanery and wrangling, productive of envy, contention, calumny, <a href="/wey/1_timothy/6.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> he is puffed up with pride and has no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words which give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions, <a href="/worrell/1_timothy/6.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> he has become puffed up, knowing nothing, but morbid about questions and word-battles, out of which come envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, <a href="/worsley/1_timothy/6.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> he is proud, knowing nothing, but is delirious about questions and strifes of words: from which cometh envy, contention, calumnies, wicked suspicions, perverse debates of men corrupted in mind, <a href="/parallel/1_timothy/6-4.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EkcLX59OJyU?start=876" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/1_timothy/6.htm">Reject False Doctrines</a> 3If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching, 4<a href="/greek/5187.htm" title="5187: tetyphōtai (V-RIM/P-3S) -- From a derivative of tupho; to envelop with smoke, i.e. to inflate with self-conceit.">he is conceited</a> <a href="/greek/1987.htm" title="1987: epistamenos (V-PPM/P-NMS) -- To know, know of, understand. Apparently a middle voice of ephistemi; to put the mind upon, i.e. Comprehend, or be acquainted with.">and understands</a> <a href="/greek/3367.htm" title="3367: mēden (Adj-ANS) -- No one, none, nothing. ">nothing.</a> <a href="/greek/235.htm" title="235: alla (Conj) -- But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.">Instead,</a> <a href="/greek/3552.htm" title="3552: nosōn (V-PPA-NMS) -- To be diseased, hence of mental or spiritual disease. From nosos; to be sick, i.e. to hanker after.">he has an unhealthy interest</a> <a href="/greek/4012.htm" title="4012: peri (Prep) -- From the base of peran; properly, through, i.e. Around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time.">in</a> <a href="/greek/2214.htm" title="2214: zētēseis (N-AFP) -- A question, debate, controversy; a seeking, search. From zeteo; a searching, i.e. A dispute or its theme.">controversies</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/3055.htm" title="3055: logomachias (N-AFP) -- Contention about words, an unprofitable controversy. From the same as logomacheo; disputation about trifles.">semantics,</a> <a href="/greek/1537.htm" title="1537: ex (Prep) -- From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.">out of</a> <a href="/greek/3739.htm" title="3739: hōn (RelPro-GFP) -- Who, which, what, that. ">which</a> <a href="/greek/1096.htm" title="1096: ginetai (V-PIM/P-3S) -- A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.">come</a> <a href="/greek/5355.htm" title="5355: phthonos (N-NMS) -- Envy, a grudge, spite. Probably akin to the base of phtheiro; ill-will, i.e. Jealousy.">envy,</a> <a href="/greek/2054.htm" title="2054: eris (N-NFS) -- Contention, strife, wrangling. Of uncertain affinity; a quarrel, i.e. wrangling.">strife,</a> <a href="/greek/988.htm" title="988: blasphēmiai (N-NFP) -- Abusive or scurrilous language, blasphemy. From blasphemos; vilification.">abusive talk,</a> <a href="/greek/4190.htm" title="4190: ponērai (Adj-NFP) -- Evil, bad, wicked, malicious, slothful. ">evil</a> <a href="/greek/5283.htm" title="5283: hyponoiai (N-NFP) -- A supposition, suspicion. From huponoeo; suspicion.">suspicions,</a> 5and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/james/3-14.htm">James 3:14-16</a> But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth. / Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. / For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice. <a href="/2_timothy/2-23.htm">2 Timothy 2:23</a> But reject foolish and ignorant speculation, for you know that it breeds quarreling. <a href="/titus/3-9.htm">Titus 3:9</a> But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless. <a href="/1_corinthians/3-3.htm">1 Corinthians 3:3</a> for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man? <a href="/2_corinthians/12-20.htm">2 Corinthians 12:20</a> For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder. <a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19-21</a> The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. <a href="/philippians/2-3.htm">Philippians 2:3</a> Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves. <a href="/romans/1-29.htm">Romans 1:29-31</a> They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, / slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. / They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. <a href="/colossians/2-18.htm">Colossians 2:18</a> Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind. <a href="/1_corinthians/8-1.htm">1 Corinthians 8:1</a> Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. <a href="/proverbs/13-10.htm">Proverbs 13:10</a> Arrogance leads only to strife, but wisdom is with the well-advised. <a href="/proverbs/17-19.htm">Proverbs 17:19</a> He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his gate high invites destruction. <a href="/proverbs/18-6.htm">Proverbs 18:6-7</a> A fool’s lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating. / A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul. <a href="/proverbs/26-21.htm">Proverbs 26:21</a> Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-13.htm">Ecclesiastes 10:13</a> The beginning of his talk is folly, and the end of his speech is evil madness.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,He.<a href="/1_timothy/1-7.htm">1 Timothy 1:7</a> Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.<a href="/1_timothy/3-6.htm">1 Timothy 3:6</a> Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.<a href="/proverbs/13-7.htm">Proverbs 13:7</a> There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.proud.<a href="/1_timothy/1-4.htm">1 Timothy 1:4</a> Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.<a href="/2_timothy/2-23.htm">2 Timothy 2:23</a> But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.words.<a href="/isaiah/58-4.htm">Isaiah 58:4</a> Behold, 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.<a href="/acts/15-2.htm">Acts 15:2</a> 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 elders about this question.<a href="/romans/2-8.htm">Romans 2:8</a> But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_corinthians/6-10.htm">Abusive</a> <a href="/philippians/2-14.htm">Arguments</a> <a href="/ephesians/5-14.htm">Arise</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-32.htm">Battles</a> <a href="/1_timothy/3-6.htm">Conceit</a> <a href="/1_timothy/3-6.htm">Conceited</a> <a href="/1_timothy/1-4.htm">Controversies</a> <a href="/1_timothy/3-16.htm">Controversy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-24.htm">Craving</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-23.htm">Crazy</a> <a href="/romans/1-21.htm">Discussions</a> <a href="/1_timothy/1-4.htm">Disputes</a> <a href="/1_timothy/2-8.htm">Dissension</a> <a href="/ezekiel/33-32.htm">Doting</a> <a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Envy</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-1.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-20.htm">Ill-Natured</a> <a href="/colossians/4-13.htm">Interest</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/2-5.htm">Language</a> <a href="/1_timothy/3-11.htm">Malicious</a> <a href="/1_timothy/3-6.htm">Opinion</a> <a href="/psalms/61-2.htm">Over-High</a> <a href="/1_timothy/3-6.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/9-11.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/philippians/2-16.htm">Proud</a> <a href="/1_timothy/3-6.htm">Puffed</a> <a href="/romans/13-13.htm">Quarrelling</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/1-11.htm">Quarrels</a> <a href="/1_timothy/1-4.htm">Questions</a> <a href="/matthew/15-19.htm">Railings</a> <a href="/philippians/1-26.htm">Result</a> <a href="/1_timothy/5-14.htm">Reviling</a> <a href="/zephaniah/2-8.htm">Revilings</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-16.htm">Rise</a> <a href="/1_timothy/5-14.htm">Slander</a> <a href="/1_timothy/2-8.htm">Strife</a> <a href="/galatians/5-20.htm">Strifes</a> <a href="/1_timothy/5-1.htm">Talk</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-3.htm">True.</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-2.htm">Understands</a> <a href="/1_timothy/1-7.htm">Whereof</a> <a href="/1_timothy/5-19.htm">Word</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-3.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_timothy/3-2.htm">Abusive</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-20.htm">Arguments</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-10.htm">Arise</a> <a href="/1_samuel/8-20.htm">Battles</a> <a href="/2_timothy/3-4.htm">Conceit</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-17.htm">Conceited</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-23.htm">Controversies</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-20.htm">Controversy</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-10.htm">Craving</a> <a href="/acts/12-15.htm">Crazy</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-23.htm">Discussions</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-14.htm">Disputes</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-14.htm">Dissension</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-11.htm">Doting</a> <a href="/titus/3-3.htm">Envy</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-5.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-17.htm">Ill-Natured</a> <a href="/exodus/22-25.htm">Interest</a> <a href="/titus/2-8.htm">Language</a> <a href="/2_timothy/3-3.htm">Malicious</a> <a href="/1_peter/5-12.htm">Opinion</a> <a href="/psalms/61-2.htm">Over-High</a> <a href="/2_timothy/3-2.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-23.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/2_timothy/3-2.htm">Proud</a> <a href="/2_timothy/3-4.htm">Puffed</a> <a href="/exodus/2-13.htm">Quarrelling</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-23.htm">Quarrels</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-23.htm">Questions</a> <a href="/matthew/15-19.htm">Railings</a> <a href="/titus/3-5.htm">Result</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-23.htm">Reviling</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/28-15.htm">Revilings</a> <a href="/hebrews/7-11.htm">Rise</a> <a href="/titus/3-2.htm">Slander</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-23.htm">Strife</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-23.htm">Strifes</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-5.htm">Talk</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-5.htm">True.</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/29-4.htm">Understands</a> <a href="/hebrews/2-5.htm">Whereof</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-14.htm">Word</a> <a href="/2_timothy/1-13.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">1 Timothy 6</div>1. <a href="/1_timothy/6-1.htm">Of the duty of servants.</a> 3. <a href="/1_timothy/6-3.htm">Not to have fellowship with newfangled teachers.</a> 6. <a href="/1_timothy/6-6.htm">Godliness is great gain;</a> 10. <a href="/1_timothy/6-10.htm">and love of money the root of all evil.</a> 11. <a href="/1_timothy/6-11.htm">What Timothy is to flee, and what to follow.</a> 17. <a href="/1_timothy/6-17.htm">and whereof to admonish the rich.</a> 20. <a href="/1_timothy/6-20.htm">To keep the purity of true doctrine, and to avoid godless ideas.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script 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This phrase addresses the issue of pride and ignorance. In the biblical context, conceit is often linked to a lack of true wisdom, as seen in <a href="/proverbs/16-18.htm">Proverbs 16:18</a>, "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall." The individual described here is puffed up with self-importance, yet lacks genuine understanding, echoing the warning in <a href="/1_corinthians/8.htm">1 Corinthians 8:1-2</a> about knowledge that puffs up without love. This reflects a spiritual blindness, as true understanding comes from humility and the fear of the Lord (<a href="/proverbs/9-10.htm">Proverbs 9:10</a>).Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and disputes about words, This phrase highlights a preoccupation with trivial arguments rather than the core truths of the faith. In the early church, such disputes often arose from false teachings and heresies, as seen in the issues addressed in Galatians and Colossians. The focus on "words" suggests a legalistic or philosophical approach that misses the heart of the gospel. This is reminiscent of the Pharisees' focus on the letter of the law rather than its spirit (<a href="/matthew/23-23.htm">Matthew 23:23-24</a>).out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions, The consequences of such disputes are destructive, leading to division and hostility within the community. Envy and strife are works of the flesh listed in <a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19-21</a>, contrasting with the fruit of the Spirit. Abusive talk and evil suspicions reflect a breakdown in trust and love, which are foundational to Christian fellowship (<a href="/1_corinthians/13-4.htm">1 Corinthians 13:4-7</a>). This mirrors the warnings in <a href="/james/3-16.htm">James 3:16</a>, where envy and selfish ambition lead to disorder and every evil practice.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/p/paul.htm">Paul</a> The apostle who authored the letter to Timothy, providing guidance and instruction for church leadership and personal conduct. 2. <a href="/topical/t/timothy.htm">Timothy</a> A young pastor and protégé of Paul, stationed in Ephesus, tasked with addressing false teachings and maintaining sound doctrine. 3. <a href="/topical/e/ephesus.htm">Ephesus</a> The city where Timothy was ministering, known for its diverse culture and the presence of false teachers within the church. 4. <a href="/topical/f/false_teachers.htm">False Teachers</a> Individuals within the Ephesian church who were promoting incorrect doctrines and causing division through their teachings. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_early_church.htm">The Early Church</a> The broader context in which these teachings were being addressed, as the early Christian community sought to establish sound doctrine and unity.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_pride.htm">The Danger of Pride</a> Pride leads to a lack of true understanding and can cause division within the church. Believers should seek humility and wisdom from God. <a href="/topical/a/avoiding_controversies.htm">Avoiding Controversies</a> Engaging in fruitless debates and semantic arguments can lead to destructive outcomes. Christians should focus on edifying discussions that promote unity. <a href="/topical/g/guarding_against_false_teachings.htm">Guarding Against False Teachings</a> It is crucial to discern and reject teachings that deviate from sound doctrine, as they can lead to envy, strife, and other negative behaviors. <a href="/topical/p/pursuing_godly_wisdom.htm">Pursuing Godly Wisdom</a> True understanding comes from God and leads to peace and righteousness. Believers should seek wisdom through prayer and study of the Scriptures. <a href="/topical/p/promoting_unity_in_the_church.htm">Promoting Unity in the Church</a> Christians are called to foster an environment of love and unity, avoiding behaviors that lead to division and suspicion.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_1_timothy_6.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 1 Timothy 6</a> <a href="/q/is_it_the_devil's_condemnation.htm">Is it the same condemnation as the Devil's?</a> <a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_1_tim_1_4_with_genealogies.htm">How do we reconcile 1 Timothy 1:4’s condemnation of myths and endless genealogies with other parts of scripture that rely heavily on genealogies? </a> <a href="/q/how_does_1_tim_6_3-5_view_open_inquiry.htm">How does 1 Timothy 6:3–5 reconcile its condemnation of “false teachers” with the importance of open inquiry and critical thinking? </a> <a href="/q/how_reconcile_2_tim_4_6_with_later_traditions.htm">If 2 Timothy 4:6 suggests Paul's imminent death, how do we reconcile this with later traditions claiming he continued his ministry longer?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_timothy/6.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(4) He is proud.--St. Paul, with righteous anger, flames out against these perverse men, who, using the name of Christ, substitute their short-sighted views of life for His, throw doubt and discredit upon the teaching of His chosen Apostles and servants, stir up discord, excite party spirit, barring, often hopelessly, the onward march of Christianity. The true Christian teaching is healthy, practical, capable of being carried out by all orders in the state, by every age or sex, by bond and free. The spurious Christian maxims of these men deal with subtle, useless, unpractical questions, which have no influence on ordinary life, and only tend to stir up strife and useless inquiry, and to make men discontented and rebellious. These unhappy men he first characterises as "proud:" literally, blinded with pride.Knowing nothing.--Better rendered, yet without knowing anything; having no real conception of the office and work of Christ in the world.But doting about questions.--While so ignorant of the higher and more practical points of Christian theology, the false teacher is "mad upon" curious and debatable questions, such as the nature of the ever blessed Trinity; God's purposes respecting those men who know not, have not even heard of the Redeemer; and the like--problems never to be solved by us while on earth--questions, the profitless debating of which has rent asunder whole churches, and individually has broken up old friendships, and sown the seeds of bitter irreconcilable hatred.And strifes of words.--Verbal disputes, barren and idle controversies about words rather than things; such wild war as also has raged, not only in the days of Timothy and of St. Paul, but all through the Christian ages, on such words as Predestination, Election, Faith, Inspiration, Person, Regeneration, &c.St. Paul was writing, then, in the spirit of the living God, and was warning no solitary pastor and friend at Ephesus of the weeds then springing up in that fair, newly-planted vineyard of his, but was addressing the Master's servants in many vineyards and of many ages; was telling them what would meet them, what would mar and spoil their work, and in not a few cases would break their hearts with sorrow.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_timothy/6.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 4. - Puffed up for proud, A.V.; questionings for questions, A.V.; disputes for strifes, A.V. He is puffed up (τετύφωται); see <a href="/1_timothy/3-6.htm">1 Timothy 3:6</a>, note. Doting (νοσῶν); here only in the New Testament, but found occasionally in the LXX. Applied in classical Greek to the mind and body, "to be in an unsound state." Here it means "having a morbid love of" or "going mad about." In this morbid love of questionings and disputes of words, they lose sight of all wholesome words and all godly doctrine. Questionings (ζητήσεις); see <a href="/1_timothy/1-6.htm">1 Timothy 1:6</a>, note. It corresponds nearly to our word "controversies." Disputes of words (λογομαχίας); found only here. The verb λογομαχέω is used in <a href="/2_timothy/2-14.htm">2 Timothy 2:14</a>. Would that the Church had always remembered St. Paul's pithy condemnation of unfruitful controversies about words! Surmisings (ὑπόνοιαι); only here in the -New Testament. In classical Greek it means "suspicion," or any under-thought. The verb ὑπονοέω occurs three times in the Acts - "to deem, think, or suppose." Here the "surmisings" are those uncharitable insinuations in which angry controversialists indulge towards one another. <a href="/commentaries/1_timothy/6-4.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>he is conceited τετύφωται (tetyphōtai) Verb - Perfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5187.htm">Strong's 5187: </a> From a derivative of tupho; to envelop with smoke, i.e. to inflate with self-conceit. [and] understands ἐπιστάμενος (epistamenos) Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1987.htm">Strong's 1987: </a> To know, know of, understand. Apparently a middle voice of ephistemi; to put the mind upon, i.e. Comprehend, or be acquainted with. nothing. μηδὲν (mēden) Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3367.htm">Strong's 3367: </a> No one, none, nothing. Instead, ἀλλὰ (alla) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_235.htm">Strong's 235: </a> But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise. [he has] an unhealthy interest νοσῶν (nosōn) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3552.htm">Strong's 3552: </a> To be diseased, hence of mental or spiritual disease. From nosos; to be sick, i.e. to hanker after. in περὶ (peri) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_4012.htm">Strong's 4012: </a> From the base of peran; properly, through, i.e. Around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time. controversies ζητήσεις (zētēseis) Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_2214.htm">Strong's 2214: </a> A question, debate, controversy; a seeking, search. From zeteo; a searching, i.e. A dispute or its theme. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. semantics, λογομαχίας (logomachias) Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3055.htm">Strong's 3055: </a> Contention about words, an unprofitable controversy. From the same as logomacheo; disputation about trifles. out of ἐξ (ex) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1537.htm">Strong's 1537: </a> From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out. which ὧν (hōn) Personal / Relative Pronoun - Genitive Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3739.htm">Strong's 3739: </a> Who, which, what, that. come γίνεται (ginetai) Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1096.htm">Strong's 1096: </a> A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude. envy, φθόνος (phthonos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5355.htm">Strong's 5355: </a> Envy, a grudge, spite. Probably akin to the base of phtheiro; ill-will, i.e. Jealousy. strife, ἔρις (eris) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2054.htm">Strong's 2054: </a> Contention, strife, wrangling. Of uncertain affinity; a quarrel, i.e. wrangling. abusive talk, βλασφημίαι (blasphēmiai) Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_988.htm">Strong's 988: </a> Abusive or scurrilous language, blasphemy. From blasphemos; vilification. evil πονηραί (ponērai) Adjective - Nominative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_4190.htm">Strong's 4190: </a> Evil, bad, wicked, malicious, slothful. suspicions, ὑπόνοιαι (hyponoiai) Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_5283.htm">Strong's 5283: </a> A supposition, suspicion. From huponoeo; suspicion. <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_timothy/6-4.htm">1 Timothy 6:4 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/1_timothy/6-4.htm">1 Timothy 6:4 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/1_timothy/6-4.htm">1 Timothy 6:4 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/1_timothy/6-4.htm">1 Timothy 6:4 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/1_timothy/6-4.htm">1 Timothy 6:4 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_timothy/6-4.htm">1 Timothy 6:4 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_timothy/6-4.htm">1 Timothy 6:4 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_timothy/6-4.htm">1 Timothy 6:4 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/1_timothy/6-4.htm">1 Timothy 6:4 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/1_timothy/6-4.htm">1 Timothy 6:4 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/1_timothy/6-4.htm">NT Letters: 1 Timothy 6:4 He is conceited knowing nothing but obsessed (1 Tim. 1Ti iTi 1tim i Tm) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_timothy/6-3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Timothy 6:3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Timothy 6:3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_timothy/6-5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Timothy 6:5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Timothy 6:5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>