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 a dispute among them which of them should be regarded as greatest.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is puffed up with pride and has no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words which give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions,
James 3:14
But if in your hearts you have bitter feelings of envy and rivalry, do not speak boastfully and falsely, in defiance of the truth.
James 4:1
What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?
3 John 1:9
I wrote to the Church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the first place among them, refuses to listen to us.
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Luke 14:28
"Which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not sit down first and calculate the cost, asking if he has the means to finish it? --
Acts 6:1
About this time, as the number of disciples was increasing, complaints were made by the Greek-speaking Jews against the Hebrews because their widows were habitually overlooked in the daily ministration.