Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
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Luke 22:24
There arose also among them a contention as to which one of them should rank as greatest.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is a conceited ignoramus with a morbid appetite for discussions and controversies which lead to envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions,
James 3:14
But if you cherish bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop being proud of it and stop being false to the standard of truth.
James 4:1
What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.
3 John 1:9
I have written briefly to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to be first among them, refuses to listen to me.
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Luke 14:28
"What man among you, if he wishes to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost, to see whether he has money enough to complete it?
Acts 6:1
In those days, as the number of the disciples was increasing, complaint was made by the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.