Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Adjudication at law » To be avoided
The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush? Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not, Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back.
'Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,
Busy-bodies » Fools are
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
Fools » Characteristics of » Meddlesomeness
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
Fools » Are » Given to meddling
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
Strife » Causes of » Forbidden
The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
Laying hold on the ears of a dog, Is a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.
and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,
Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?
nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --
and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;
These things remind them of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;
Strife » Avoiding strife
The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.
Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush? Thy cause plead with thy neighbour, And the secret counsel of another reveal not, Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back.
as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;
nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --
Strife » It is honorable to cease from
An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.