1 Timothy 6:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

1 Timothy 6:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Timothy 2:23
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
2 Timothy 3:4
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
1 Timothy 3:6
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
2 Peter 2:12
But 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;
2 Timothy 2:14
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

I. Here is the duty of servants. The apostle had spoken before of church-relations, here of our family-relations. Servants are here said to be under the yoke, which denotes both subjection and labour; they are yoked to work, not to be idle. If Christianity finds servants under the yoke, it continues them under it; for the gospel does not cancel the obligations any lie under either by the law of na…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. 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. qu…