1 Timothy 6:4
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,
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
5and void of truth, accounting gain to be godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
Cross References
Acts 8:9But there was before in the city a man named Simon practising magic and bewitching the people of Samaria, giving out that he was some great person.
Acts 15:2A dissension therefore arising, and Paul and Barnabas having no small dispute with them, it was resolved that Paul and Barnabas, and some others, should go up to the apostles and elders at Jerusalem about this question.
Romans 2:8but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath.
Romans 13:13Let us behave decently as being in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lasciviousness, not in strife and envying.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 6:2-6
The Duty of Servants. ( a. d. 64.) 1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. 2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort. 3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the… Read the whole commentary →