Thematic Bible: Contention


Thematic Bible







[As] coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife. Verse ConceptsArguingDissensionContentiousnessCharcoal

A continual dropping in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike. He who would restrain her restrains the wind, and his right hand encounters oil.


A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

But Zion said, LORD has forsaken me, and LORD has forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, these may forget, yet I will not forget thee. Behold, I have engraved thee upon the palms of my hands. Thy walls are continually before me. read more.
Thy sons make haste. Thy destroyers and those who made thee waste shall go forth from thee. Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold. All these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, says LORD, thou shall surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and gird thyself with them, like a bride. For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy land that has been destroyed, surely now thou shall be too narrow for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed thee up shall be far away. The sons of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too narrow for me. Give a place to me that I may dwell. Then thou shall say in thy heart, Who has begotten these for me, seeing I have been bereaved of my sons, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone, these, where were Thus says lord LORD: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples. And they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers. They shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet. And thou shall know that I am LORD, and those who wait for me s Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered? But thus says LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered. For I will contend with him who contends with thee, and I will save thy sons.

The lot causes contentions to cease, and decides between the mighty. Verse ConceptsCasting LotsResolving Conflict

Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out, yea, strife and reproach will cease. Verse ConceptsArguingdriving outInsultsMockeryRidicule, Nature OfScornersQuarrelsAbusemockers

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases. Verse ConceptsBackbitingDiscordGossipExtinguishingFirewoodBurnoutFamily ProblemsConflictFamily Conflictrumorsgossiping


If a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man, whether he be angry or laugh, there will be no rest. Verse ConceptsLawsuitsScoffing

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but such as keep the law contend with them. Verse ConceptsCommendationConnivanceResults Of Keeping The Commandments

Woe to him who strives with his maker, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are thou making? or thy work, He has no hands? Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersArguingClaySurrenderingPresumptionPotteryAuthority, Belonging To GodAnimositySuing GodWoe To The WickedMan's Relationship With His Creatorstriving


He who is of a greedy spirit stirs up strife, but he who puts his trust in LORD shall be made fat. Verse ConceptsCovetingProsperityPride, Results InThe Effects Of FaithThe Righteous ProsperEconomicsGreedTrusting OthersConflict