Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Timothy 6:3-5
1 Timothy 6:3-5. If any man teach otherwise Than strict, practical holiness, in all its branches; and consent not to wholesome words Υγιαινουσι λογοις , literally, healing, or healthful words, words that have no taint of falsehood, or tendency to encourage sin; and the doctrine which is according to godliness The sole design and direct tendency of which is to make people godly, and to promote the glory of God, while it secures the salvation of men; he is proud Greek, τετυφωται , ... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Timothy 6:5
Perverse disputings - Margin, “gallings one of another.” In regard to the correct reading of this passage, see Bib. Repository, vol. iii. pp. 61, 62. The word which is here used in the Received Text - παραδιατρίβη paradiatribē - occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It properly means “mis-employment;” then “idle occupation.” (Robinson’s Lexicon) The verb from which this is derived means to “rub in pieces, to wear away;” and hence the word here used refers to what was a mere “wearing away”... read more