Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Contentiousness » The contentious spirit
He loves transgression who loves strife. He who raises high his gate seeks destruction.
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but he who is slow to anger appeases strife.
[As] coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.
I am [for] peace, but when I speak, they are for war.
[and men] who devise mischievous things in their heart. They gather themselves continually together for war.
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes.
Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.
Dissention » The contentious spirit
He loves transgression who loves strife. He who raises high his gate seeks destruction.
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but he who is slow to anger appeases strife.
[As] coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.
I am [for] peace, but when I speak, they are for war.
[and men] who devise mischievous things in their heart. They gather themselves continually together for war.
A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes.
Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.
Heart » The unregenerate » Is malicious
And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
[and men] who devise mischievous things in their heart. They gather themselves continually together for war.
For their heart meditates oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
Thus says lord LORD: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with spite of soul to destroy with perpetual enmity,
character of the unrenewed Heart » Mischievous
[and men] who devise mischievous things in their heart. They gather themselves continually together for war.
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.