1 Timothy 5:15

15 aFor some have already strayed after Satan.

1 Timothy 6:4-5

4 bhe is puffed up with conceit and cunderstands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for dcontroversy and for equarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5and constant friction among people fwho are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, gimagining that godliness is a means of gain.

1 Timothy 6:20

20O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. hAvoid the iirreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”

2 Timothy 2:23-24

23Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant jcontroversies; you know that they breed quarrels. 24And kthe Lord’s servant
Greek bondservant
must not be quarrelsome but mkind to everyone, nable to teach, patiently enduring evil,

Titus 1:10

10For there are many who are insubordinate, oempty talkers and deceivers, especially those of pthe circumcision party.
Or  especially those of the circumcision

Titus 3:9

9But ravoid foolish scontroversies, tgenealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for uthey are unprofitable and worthless.
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