Luke 14:28-32
Why, which of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and reckon the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?--
Luke 22:24
And a dispute arose among them as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.
Acts 6:1-5
About this time, when the number of the disciples was constantly increasing, complaints were made by the Jews of foreign birth against the native Jews, that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.
1 Timothy 6:4
is puffed up with conceit, not really knowing anything, but having a morbid craving for discussions and arguments. Such things only give rise to envy, quarreling, recriminations, base suspicions,
James 3:14-16
But, while you harbor envy and bitterness and a spirit of rivalry in your hearts, do not boast or lie to the detriment of the Truth.
James 4:1
What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?
James 4:5-6
Do you suppose there is no meaning in the passage of Scripture which asks--'Is envy to result from the longings of the Spirit which God has implanted within you?'
3 John 1:9-10
I wrote a few lines to the Church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, declines to recognize us.