²⁵ Similarly, a family splintered by feuding will fall apart.

¹⁶ For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.

¹⁵ But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.

Psalm 133

A song for pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem. A psalm of David.

⁴ But his brothers hated Joseph because their father loved him more than the rest of them. They couldn’t say a kind word to him.

⁷ So disputes broke out between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot. (At that time Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land.)

⁸ Finally Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not allow this conflict to come between us or our herdsmen. After all, we are close relatives!