10 Where there is strife, there is pride,
    but wisdom is found in those who take advice.(A)

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10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

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10 Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife;
    quarrels and insults are ended.(A)

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10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

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11 My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe’s household(A) have informed me that there are quarrels among you.

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11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

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We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God,(A) and we take captive every thought to make it obedient(B) to Christ.

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Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

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I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments.(A)

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And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

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If anyone teaches otherwise(A) and does not agree to the sound instruction(B) of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, they are conceited(C) and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words(D) that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth(E) and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

But godliness with contentment(F) is great gain.(G)

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If 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,

Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

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23 Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels.(A)

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23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

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But avoid(A) foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels(B) about the law,(C) because these are unprofitable and useless.(D)

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But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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Submit Yourselves to God

What causes fights and quarrels(A) among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle(B) within you?

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From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

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