Strife In The Church

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,

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

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 →

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;

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

`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 →

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

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

and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

`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;

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

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

A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

`If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee, — read the full passage →

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

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!

looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

`Happy the peacemakers--because they shall be called Sons of God.

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

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

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

and I will give to thee the keys of the reign of the heavens, and whatever thou mayest bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever thou mayest loose upon the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.'

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

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

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

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

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

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

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, — read the full passage →

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

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

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

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! -- — read the full passage →

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

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

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

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

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?

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

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.

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

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

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.

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration, — read the full passage →

`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him, — read the full passage →

`And if he may not hear them, say <FI>it<Fi> to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

Elders who <FI>are<Fi> among you, I exhort, who <FI>am<Fi> a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker, — read the full passage →

be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

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

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

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing, — read the full passage →

Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope, — read the full passage →

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

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

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves-- — read the full passage →

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness? — read the full passage →

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers--

And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place, — read the full passage →

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?' — read the full passage →

because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world--our faith;

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

Euodia I exhort, and Syntyche I exhort, to be of the same mind in the Lord; — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

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,

And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;

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

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

`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 →

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

Ye--of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who <FI>is<Fi> in you, than he who is in the world.

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

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