Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
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Luke 22:24
And there was a contention among them as to which of them should be the greatest.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions,
James 3:14
But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and lie not against the truth.
James 4:1
Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members?
3 John 1:9
I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes desiring the pre-eminence does not receive us.
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Luke 14:28
For what man of you wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the expense, whether he has the means to finish?
Acts 6:1
AND in those days the disciples being multiplied, there was a complaint of the Hellenists against the Hebrews, that their widows were neglected in the daily service.