So he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

A wrathful man stirs up strife, But he who is slow to anger allays contention.

The beginning of strife is like releasing water; Therefore stop contention before a quarrel starts.

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

Casting lots causes contentions to cease, And keeps the mighty apart.

A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, And contentions are like the bars of a castle.

A foolish son is the ruin of his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

Cast out the scoffer, and contention will leave; Yes, strife and reproach will cease.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

Jeremiah’s Dejection

Woe is me, my mother, That you have borne me, A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent for interest, Nor have men lent to me for interest. Every one of them curses me.

Why do You show me iniquity, And cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; There is strife, and contention arises.

Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another. And so Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus;

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

For I fear lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that 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;

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

Avoid Dissension

But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.