'Contention' in the Bible
You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.
Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away to Cyprus,
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- Arguing (28 instances)
- Argument (61 instances)
- Competition (7 instances)
- Contention (40 instances)
- Contest (6 instances)
- Controversy (26 instances)
- Disputation (2 instances)
- Rivalry (11 instances)
- Tilt (2 instances)