Strife

and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife, — read the full passage →

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth; — read the full passage →

An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,

The beginning of contention <FI>is<Fi> a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →

Cast out a scorner--and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.

A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready, — read the full passage →

The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.

and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;

A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled <FI>is<Fi> wisdom.

So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

Laying hold on the ears of a dog, <FI>Is<Fi> a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.

For the churning of milk bringeth out butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth out blood, And the forcing of anger bringeth out strife!

Better <FI>is<Fi> a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions and anger.

for yet ye are fleshly, for where <FI>there is<Fi> among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance is seeking destruction.

and if one another ye do bite and devour, see--that ye may not by one another be consumed.

Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife.

Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than <FI>with<Fi> a woman of contentions, and a house of company.

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

Lo, for strife and debate ye fast, And to smite with the fist of wickedness, Ye fast not as <FI>to<Fi> -day, To sound in the high place your voice.

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

Lo, all those displeased with thee, They are ashamed and blush, They are as nothing, yea, perish Do the men who strive with thee.

and if a house against itself be divided, that house cannot be made to stand;

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned, — read the full passage →

`How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?

I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

Thou hast wrought for those trusting in Thee, Before sons of men. Thou hidest them in the secret place of Thy presence, From artifices of man, Thou concealest them in a tabernacle, From the strife of tongues.

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity dost cause to behold? And spoiling and violence <FI>are<Fi> before me, And there is strife, and contention doth lift <FI>itself<Fi> up,

All things do without murmurings and reasonings,

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

for where zeal and rivalry <FI>are<Fi> , there is insurrection and every evil matter;

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

A brother transgressed against is as a strong city, And contentions as the bar of a palace.

he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

These things remind <FI>them<Fi> of, testifying fully before the Lord--not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing, — read the full passage →

`Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword; — read the full passage →

for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,

Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;

idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from--for they are unprofitable and vain.

Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?

And Abram saith unto Lot, `Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we <FI>are<Fi> men--brethren.

and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God. — read the full passage →

And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, `Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated, and no city or house having been divided against itself, doth stand,

A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment, — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, not to resist the evil, but whoever shall slap thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other; — read the full passage →

for, as thou art going away with thy opponent to the ruler, in the way give diligence to be released from him, lest he may drag thee unto the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and the officer may cast thee into prison;

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

`Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

All things do without murmurings and reasonings, — read the full passage →

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking <FI>with<Fi> perverseness of mouth, — read the full passage →

Thou makest us a strife to our neighbours, And our enemies mock at it.

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

And he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, `Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated; and house against house doth fall;

A calamity to his father <FI>is<Fi> a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife <FI>are<Fi> a continual dropping.

And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words--those of our Lord Jesus Christ--and to the teaching according to piety, — read the full passage →

Thou seekest them, and findest them not, The men who debate with thee, They are as nothing, yea, as nothing, The men who war with thee.

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

and if any one doth think to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the assemblies of God.

Right <FI>it is<Fi> not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to <FI>do anything<Fi> in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, — read the full passage →

and they were silent, for with one another they did reason in the way who is greater;

and there is a strife between those feeding Abram's cattle and those feeding Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite <FI>are<Fi> then dwelling in the land.

And there happened also a strife among them--who of them is accounted to be greater.

Beloved, I call upon <FI>you<Fi> , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

Better <FI>is<Fi> an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;