1 Timothy 6:4

1 Timothy 6:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
• New International Version (NIV)they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions
• English Standard Version (ESV)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,
• New King James Version (NKJV)he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

Context of 1 Timothy 6:4

2Let those who have believing masters not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers, but serve them even better, since those who benefit from their service are believers and dearly loved. Teach and encourage these things. 3If anyone teaches false doctrine and does not agree with the sound teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the teaching that promotes godliness, 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, 5and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain. 6But godliness with contentment is great gain.

1 Timothy 6:4 word by word

τετύφωται μηδὲν ἐπιστάμενος ἀλλὰ νοσῶν περὶ ζητήσεις καὶ λογομαχίας, ἐξ ὧν γίνεται φθόνος, ἔρις, βλασφημίαι, ὑπόνοιαι πονηραί,Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• He is proudτυφόωtuphoō · be conceitedG5187
• knowingἐπίσταμαιepistamai · to know/understandG1987
• nothingμηδείςmēdeis mēdemia mēden · nothingG3367
• butἀλλάalla · butG235
• dotingνοσέωnoseō · be sickG3552
• aboutπερίperi · aboutG4012
• questionsζήτησιςzētēsis · controversyG2214
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• strifes of wordsλογομαχίαlogomachia · quarrelG3055
• whereofἐκek ex · out fromG1537
• whereofὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
• comethγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• envyφθόνοςphthonos · envyG5355
• strifeἔριςeris · quarrelG2054
• railingsβλασφημίαblasphēmia · blasphemyG988
• evilπονηρόςponēros · evil/badG4190
• surmisingsὑπόνοιαhuponoia · suspicionG5283

Cross-references for 1 Timothy 6:4

• 1 Timothy 1:7They want to be teachers of the law, although they don’t understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on.
• 1 Timothy 3:6He must not be a new convert, or he might become conceited and incur the same condemnation as the devil.
• Proverbs 13:7One person pretends to be rich but has nothing; another pretends to be poor but has abundant wealth.
• Proverbs 25:14The one who boasts about a gift that does not exist is like clouds and wind without rain.
• Proverbs 26:12Do you see a person who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Acts 8:9A man named Simon had previously practiced sorcery in that city and amazed the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great.
• Romans 12:16Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud; instead, associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own estimation.
• 1 Corinthians 3:18Let 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.
• 1 Corinthians 8:1Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that “we all have knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
• Galatians 6:3For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
• Colossians 2:18Let 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.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:4He 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.
• 2 Timothy 3:4traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
• 2 Peter 2:12But 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.
• Jude 1:10But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct — like irrational animals — by these things they are destroyed.
• Revelation 3:17For 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.

Commentaries on 1 Timothy 6:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4He is proud - · He is blown up, or inflated with a vain opinion of his own knowledge; whereas his knowledge is foolishness, for he knows nothing. Doting about questions - He is sick, distempered, about these questions relative to the Mosaic law and the traditions of the elders; for it is most evident that the apostle has the Judaizing teachers in view, who were ever, in questions of theology, straining out a gnat, and swallowing a camel. Strifes of words…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4He is proud - That is, he is lifted up with his fancied superior acquaintance with the nature of religion. The Greek verb means, properly, “to smoke, to fume;” and then to be inflated, to “be conceited, etc.” The idea is, that he has no proper knowledge of the nature of the gospel, and yet he values himself on a fancied superior acquaintance with its principles. Knowing nothing - Margin, “a fool.” That is, that he does not understand the nature of…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and semantics: It is the same problem as in 1:4 (see also 2 Timothy 2:23–24; Titus 3:9).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. He is proud--literally, "wrapt in smoke"; filled with the fumes of self-conceit (1Ti 3:6) while "knowing nothing," namely, of the doctrine which is according to godliness (1Ti 6:3), though arrogating pre-eminent knowledge (1Ti 1:7). doting about--literally, "sick about"; the opposite of "wholesome" (1Ti 6:3). Truth is not the center about which his investigations move, but mere word-strifes. questions--of controversy. strifes of words--rather than…Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Timothy 6:4

• Church
• Doctrines
• Envy
• Fellowship
• Minister, Christian
• Pride
• Railing
• Riches
• Strife
• Word of God

In the dictionaries

• Babbling
• Confession
• Consent
• Content
• Contentment
• Covet
• Foolish
• Pierce
• Root
• Trust

Commentaries on 1 Timothy 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings