looking for a scripture

[simpleone]

Hi guys, I am not sure if this exists...thought it did...a scripture where it speaks of not striving/debating over "smaller matters" ..something like that?
know what i speak of?
let me know if you do....thanks!

 

[JimB]

No such scripture that I can think of.

My guess is you are thinking about 1 Timothy 6.4 (KJV),he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings.

~Jim

Mercy triumphs over judgment. ~James 2.13​

 

[simpleone]

No such scripture that I can think of.

My guess is you are thinking about 1 Timothy 6.4 (KJV),he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings.

~Jim

Mercy triumphs over judgment. ~James 2.13​

thanks Jim...I think I found somthing similar but yeah may not be as accurate as I first thought ...check it out
Titus 3:9

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

 

[cyberlizard]

1 tim.1v3As I urged you when I went into Macedonia,
stay there in Ephesus so that you may command
certain persons not to teach false doctrines any
longer 4or to devote themselves to myths and
endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial
speculations rather than advancing God’s
work—which is by faith.

 

[simpleone]

1 tim.1v3As I urged you when I went into Macedonia,
stay there in Ephesus so that you may command
certain persons not to teach false doctrines any
longer 4or to devote themselves to myths and
endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial
speculations rather than advancing God’s
work—which is by faith.

thanks...that's a good one too..nice to know my mind wasn't imagining something too weird
thx again!

 

[~GodsMouthpiece~]

2Tim 2:24And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, 25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; 26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

 

[gratefulgrace]

Yeah I saw that there was one similar in Titus.


Tts 3:9But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Here are some more words of wisdom from proverbs.

Pro 17:27He who has knowledge spares his words, [And] a man of understanding is of a calm spirit.

Pro 17:28Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; [When] he shuts his lips, [he is considered] perceptive.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

Romans 14:1
Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters.

 

[spirit1st]

Heb 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,