'Contentious' in the Bible
You will hide them in the secret place of your presence, away from the conspiracies of men. You will hide them in your tent, away from their contentious tongues.
A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.
It's better to live in a corner on the roof than to share a house with a contentious woman.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
It's better to live in a corner on the roof than in a house with a contentious woman.
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Whoever attempts to restrain her [criticism] might as well try to stop the wind,And grasps oil with his right hand.
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
Be ever on your guard against a grudging and contentious spirit,
not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,
to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be mild, shewing all meekness towards all men.
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- Content (49 instances in 12 translations)
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