Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Adjudication at law » To be avoided
Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; stop it before strife breaks out!
It is an honor for a person to cease from strife, but every fool quarrels.
Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame? When you argue a case with your neighbor, do not reveal the secret of another person, lest the one who hears it put you to shame and your infamy will never go away.
Reach agreement quickly with your accuser while on the way to court, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the warden, and you will be thrown into prison.
Busy-bodies » Fools are
It is an honor for a person to cease from strife, but every fool quarrels.
Fools » Characteristics of » Meddlesomeness
It is an honor for a person to cease from strife, but every fool quarrels.
Fools » Are » Given to meddling
It is an honor for a person to cease from strife, but every fool quarrels.
Strife » Causes of » Forbidden
Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; stop it before strife breaks out!
It is an honor for a person to cease from strife, but every fool quarrels.
Like one who grabs a wild dog by the ears, so is the person passing by who becomes furious over a quarrel not his own.
And the Lord's slave must not engage in heated disputes but be kind toward all, an apt teacher, patient,
Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame?
Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.
Remind people of these things and solemnly charge them before the Lord not to wrangle over words. This is of no benefit; it just brings ruin on those who listen.
Strife » Avoiding strife
Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; stop it before strife breaks out!
It is an honor for a person to cease from strife, but every fool quarrels.
Do not go out hastily to litigation, or what will you do afterward when your neighbor puts you to shame? When you argue a case with your neighbor, do not reveal the secret of another person, lest the one who hears it put you to shame and your infamy will never go away.
Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.
Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.
Strife » It is honorable to cease from
It is an honor for a person to cease from strife, but every fool quarrels.