¹⁴ Then I cut in two my other staff, ^[a]Bonds, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

Pride Promotes Strife

4 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? ² 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. ^3 (B)You ask and do not receive, ^(C)because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

¹⁶ For ^(A)where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.

¹⁴ But if you have ^(A)bitter envy and ^[a]self-seeking in your hearts, ^(B)do not boast and lie against the truth.

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

⁷ And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and the assembly was divided. ^8 (A)For Sadducees say that there is no resurrection—and no angel or spirit; but the Pharisees confess both. ⁹ Then there arose a loud outcry. And the scribes of the Pharisees’ party arose and protested, saying, ^(B)“We find no evil in this man; ^[a]but ^(C)if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, ^(D)let us not fight against God.”

¹⁰ Now when there arose a great dissension, the commander, fearing lest Paul might be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

¹⁰ And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.

⁹ Then I said, “I will not feed you. ^(A)Let what is dying die, and what is perishing perish. Let those that are left eat each other’s flesh.”