Thematic Bible: Strife in
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For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not to be as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder;
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For I have been informed about you, my brothers and sisters, by those of Chloe’s household, that there are quarrels and factions among you.
Verse Concepts
You are still worldly [controlled by ordinary impulses, the sinful capacity]. For as long as there is jealousy and strife and discord among you, are you not unspiritual, and are you not walking like ordinary men [unchanged by faith]?
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but instead, brother goes to law against brother, and that before [judges who are] unbelievers?
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I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to agree and to work in harmony in the Lord.
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Family » Parental prayers » Strife in
It is better to dwell in a desert land
Than with a contentious and troublesome woman.
A brother offended is harder to win over than a fortified city,
And contentions [separating families] are like the bars of a castle.
A foolish (ungodly) son is destruction to his father,
And the contentions of a [quarrelsome] wife are like a constant dripping [of water].
Therefore she said to Abraham, “Drive out this maid and her son, for the son of this maid shall not be an heir with my son Isaac.”
Verse Concepts
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop [on the flat roof, exposed to the weather]
Than in a house shared with a quarrelsome (contentious) woman.
A constant dripping on a day of steady rain
And a contentious (quarrelsome) woman are alike;
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