Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Adjudication at law » To be avoided
The beginning of strife is like releasing water: therefore leave off contention, before a quarrel starts.
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It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
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Go not forth hastily to court, lest you know not what to do in the end, when your neighbor has put you to shame. Debate your cause with your neighbor himself; and disclose not a secret to another: Lest he that hears it put you to shame, and the evil report turns not away.
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
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Strife » Causes of » Forbidden
The beginning of strife is like releasing water: therefore leave off contention, before a quarrel starts.
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It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
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He that passes by, and meddles with a quarrel not belonging to him, is like one that takes a dog by the ears.
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And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
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Go not forth hastily to court, lest you know not what to do in the end, when your neighbor has put you to shame.
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Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.
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But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not, and lie not against the truth.
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Strive not with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.
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Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the ruin of the hearers.
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Strife » Avoiding strife
The beginning of strife is like releasing water: therefore leave off contention, before a quarrel starts.
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It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
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Go not forth hastily to court, lest you know not what to do in the end, when your neighbor has put you to shame. Debate your cause with your neighbor himself; and disclose not a secret to another: Lest he that hears it put you to shame, and the evil report turns not away.
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
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Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.
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Strive not with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.
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Strife » Strength and violence of--illustrated
The beginning of strife is like releasing water: therefore leave off contention, before a quarrel starts.
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A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and contentions are like the bars of a castle.
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Strife » The beginning of strife
The beginning of strife is like releasing water: therefore leave off contention, before a quarrel starts.
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Strife » Difficulty of stopping, a reason for avoiding it
The beginning of strife is like releasing water: therefore leave off contention, before a quarrel starts.
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Water » Illustrative » (difficulty of stopping,) of strife and contention
The beginning of strife is like releasing water: therefore leave off contention, before a quarrel starts.
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