'Contentions' in the Bible
Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.
A false witness who doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.
Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.
The lot causeth contentions to cease, And between the mighty it separateth.
A brother transgressed against is as a strong city, And contentions as the bar of a palace.
A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than with a woman of contentions and a house of company.
Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than with a woman of contentions and anger.
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than with a woman of contentions, and a house of company.
Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife.
A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,
for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;
and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.