Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
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Luke 22:24
A dispute also arose among them, as to which one of them ought to be considered the greatest.
1 Timothy 6:4
is a conceited, ignorant person, with a morbid craving for speculations and arguments which result only in envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions,
James 3:14
But if you cherish bitter feelings of jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus belie the truth.
James 4:1
What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies?
3 John 1:9
I have written briefly to the church, but Diotrephes who likes to be their leader will not accept what I say.
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Luke 14:28
What man among you if he wishes to build a tower does not first sit down and estimate the cost of it, to see whether he has enough to complete it?
Acts 6:1
In those days, as the number of the disciples was increasing, complaints were made by the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.