13 occurrences

'Strive' in the Bible

Wherefore the people stove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? Wherefore do ye tempt Jehovah?

Verse ConceptsTestingDisputesTesting GodGiving Food And DrinkProblem PeopleComplaining

And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

Verse ConceptsBabies In The WombUnborn FetusesLawsuitsAccidental KillingsJudicial PunishmentFighting One AnotherstruggleHurt

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets;

Verse ConceptsGraspingMale GenitalsFighting One AnotherStrugglesmanhood

And of Levi he said, Thy Thummim and thy Urim are with thy godly one, Whom thou didst prove at Massah, With whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtTestingThe Urim And ThummimUrim And Thummim

And now art thou anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

They that strive with Jehovah shall be broken to pieces; Against them will he thunder in heaven: Jehovah will judge the ends of the earth; And he will give strength unto his king, And exalt the horn of his anointed.

Verse ConceptsGod, Sovereignty OfEarth, Judgment OfThunderGod Giving StrengthGod Gives StrengthThunder Expressing God's Judgment

Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters?

Verse ConceptsComplaintsGod Is ImmanentComplaining

Strive thou, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me: Fight thou against them that fight against me.

Verse ConceptsFirst To FightBattleEnemy Attacksstriving

Strive not with a man without cause, If he have done thee no harm.

Verse ConceptsBlameDiscordDisputesaccusations

Go not forth hastily to strive, Lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, When thy neighbor hath put thee to shame.

Verse ConceptsLitigationRashnessAttorneyLawsuitsHasteShaming PeopleHurt And Betrayalstriving

Behold, all they that are incensed against thee shall be put to shame and confounded: they that strive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish.

Verse ConceptsShame Will ComeUnnamed People Angry With Others

Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

Verse ConceptsAvoid Quarrelsstrivingaccusationspriests

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