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

2And 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. 3If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 5Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. 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

• 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; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
• 1 Timothy 3:6Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
• Proverbs 13:7There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
• Proverbs 25:14Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.
• Proverbs 26:12Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
• Acts 8:9But 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:
• Romans 12:16Be 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.
• 1 Corinthians 3:18Let 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.
• 1 Corinthians 8:1Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
• Galatians 6:3For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
• Colossians 2:18Let 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,
• 2 Thessalonians 2:4Who 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.
• 2 Timothy 3:4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
• 2 Peter 2:12But 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;
• Jude 1:10But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
• Revelation 3:17Because 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:

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

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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