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
• 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,
• New Living Translation (NLT)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.

Context of 1 Timothy 6:4

2Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things. 3If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 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, 5and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of 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 1:7desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.
• 1 Timothy 3:6He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
• Proverbs 13:7One pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
• Proverbs 25:14Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.
• Proverbs 26:12Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
• Acts 8:9But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great.
• Romans 12:16Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
• 1 Corinthians 3:18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
• 1 Corinthians 8:1Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.
• Galatians 6:3For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
• Colossians 2:18Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,
• 2 Thessalonians 2:4who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
• 2 Timothy 3:4treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
• 2 Peter 2:12But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
• Jude 1:10But these people blaspheme all that they do not understand, and they are destroyed by all that they, like unreasoning animals, understand instinctively.
• Revelation 3:17For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, 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
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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