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 arose also a contention among them as to which of them seemed to be greatest.
1 Timothy 6:4
he has become puffed up, knowing nothing, but morbid about questions and word-battles, out of which come envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
James 3:14
But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
James 4:1
Whence are wars, and whence are battles among you? Are they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
3 John 1:9
I wrote to the assembly; but Diotrephes, who loves to have preeminence among them, receives us not.
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Luke 14:28
For who of you, wishing to build a tower, does not, first, sitting down, calculate the expense, whether he has enough for its completion?
Acts 6:1
Now in these days, when the disciples were being multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration.