11 For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe’s household, that there are [a]contentions among you.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 1:11 quarrels

for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and [a]behaving like mere men?

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  1. 1 Corinthians 3:3 Lit. walking according to man

23 But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. 24 And (A)a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, (B)able to teach, (C)patient, 25 (D)in humility correcting those who are in opposition, (E)if God perhaps will grant them repentance, (F)so that they may know the truth,

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he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

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26 (A)Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

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A fool’s lips enter into contention,
And his mouth calls for blows.

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20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

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15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!

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20 For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that (A)I shall be found by you such as you do not wish; lest there be contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults;

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10 By pride comes nothing but (A)strife,
But with the well-advised is wisdom.

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14 Now one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master; and he [a]reviled them. 15 But the men were very good to us, and (A)we were not hurt, nor did we miss anything as long as we accompanied them, when we were in the fields. 16 They were (B)a wall to us both by night and day, all the time we were with them keeping the sheep. 17 Now therefore, know and consider what you will do, for (C)harm is determined against our master and against all his household. For he is such a (D)scoundrel[b] that one cannot speak to him.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 25:14 scolded or scorned at
  2. 1 Samuel 25:17 Lit. son of Belial

This is the history of Jacob.

Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Joseph brought (A)a bad report of them to his father.

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42 And the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, “Surely your brother Esau (A)comforts himself concerning you by intending to kill you.

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Pride Promotes Strife

Where do [a]wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure (A)that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and [b]war. [c]Yet you do not have because you do not ask.

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  1. James 4:1 battles
  2. James 4:2 battle
  3. James 4:2 NU, M omit Yet

14 Do all things (A)without [a]complaining and (B)disputing,[b]

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  1. Philippians 2:14 grumbling
  2. Philippians 2:14 arguing

18 For first of all, when you come together as a church, (A)I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

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Do Not Sue the Brethren

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the (A)saints? Do you not know that (B)the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall (C)judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? If then you have [a]judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge? I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, not even one, who will be able to judge between his brethren? But brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers!

Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. (D)Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:4 courts

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