Thematic Bible: Contention


Thematic Bible







As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife. Verse ConceptsArguingDissensionContentiousnessCharcoal

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike; to restrain her is to restrain the wind or to grasp oil in one's right hand.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine.

A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating. A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me." "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. read more.
Your builders make haste; your destroyers and those who laid you waste go out from you. Lift up your eyes around and see; they all gather, they come to you. As I live, declares the LORD, you shall put them all on as an ornament; you shall bind them on as a bride does. "Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land-- surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away. The children of your bereavement will yet say in your ears: 'The place is too narrow for me; make room for me to dwell in.' Then you will say in your heart: 'Who has borne me these? I was bereaved and barren, exiled and put away, but who has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; from where have these come?'" Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame." Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be rescued? For thus says the LORD: "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.

The lot puts an end to quarrels and decides between powerful contenders. Verse ConceptsCasting LotsResolving Conflict

Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease. Verse ConceptsArguingdriving outInsultsMockeryRidicule, Nature OfScornersQuarrelsAbusemockers

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


If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet. Verse ConceptsLawsuitsScoffing

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them. Verse ConceptsCommendationConnivanceResults Of Keeping The Commandments

"Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'? Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersArguingClaySurrenderingPresumptionPotteryAuthority, Belonging To GodAnimositySuing GodWoe To The WickedMan's Relationship With His Creatorstriving


A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the LORD will be enriched. Verse ConceptsCovetingProsperityPride, Results InThe Effects Of FaithThe Righteous ProsperEconomicsGreedTrusting OthersConflict

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