Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
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Luke 22:24
Now there had been a dispute among the disciples, which of them should be accounted the greatest.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is full of pride and ignorance, touch'd with a spirit of chicanery and wrangling, productive of envy, contention, calumny,
James 3:14
but if envy and contention imbitter your minds, don't think your false pretences can stand against the truth:
James 4:1
you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.
3 John 1:9
I have writ to the church: but Diotrephes, who affects the superiority, has no regard to our representations.
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Luke 14:28
for who of you would resolve to build a tower, without taking the trouble first of all to compute the expence, and whether he is able to finish it?
Acts 6:1
At that time, as the number of the disciples was multiplied, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the distribution that was made daily.