1 Corinthians 1:11
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11 For it has been made clear to me by Chloe’s people that there are quarrels among you, my brothers and sisters.
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1 Corinthians 3:3
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3 for you are still fleshly. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling[a] among you, are you not fleshly and behaving according to human inclinations?(A)
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- 3.3 Other ancient authorities add and dissensions
2 Timothy 2:23-25
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23 Have nothing to do with stupid and senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.(A) 24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kindly to everyone, an apt teacher, patient,(B) 25 correcting opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth(C)
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1 Timothy 6:4
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4 is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words. From these come envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,(A)
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Galatians 5:26
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26 Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.
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Proverbs 18:6
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6 A fool’s lips bring strife,
and a fool’s mouth invites a flogging.
Galatians 5:20
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20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions,
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Galatians 5:15
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15 If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
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2 Corinthians 12:20
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20 For I fear that when I come I may find you not as I wish and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.(A)
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Proverbs 13:10
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10 By insolence the empty-headed person makes strife,
but wisdom is with those who take advice.(A)
1 Samuel 25:14-17
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14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master, and he shouted insults at them. 15 Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we never missed anything when we were in the fields as long as we were with them;(A) 16 they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.(B) 17 Now, therefore, know this and consider what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his house; he is so ill-natured that no one can speak to him.”
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Genesis 37:2
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2 These are the descendants of Jacob.
Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a helper to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.
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Genesis 27:42
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42 But the words of her elder son Esau were told to Rebekah, so she sent and called her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.
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