²⁵ If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

¹⁶ For where you have envy and selfish ambition,^(A) there you find disorder and every evil practice.

¹⁵ If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

Psalm 133

A song of ascents. Of David.

⁴ When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him^(A) and could not speak a kind word to him.

⁷ And quarreling^(A) arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites^(B) and Perizzites^(C) were also living in the land^(D) at that time.

⁸ So Abram said to Lot,^(E) “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me,^(F) or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.^(G)