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1 Corinthians 3 3
for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?
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Proverbs 18:6
The lips of a fool enter into strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.
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1 Timothy 6 4
he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,
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Galatians 5:26
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.
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Galatians 5:15
However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.
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1 Corinthians 6 1-1 Corinthians 6 7
When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to settle trivial suits?Do you not know that we will judge angels? Why not ordinary matters!So if you have ordinary lawsuits, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church?I say this to your shame! Is there no one among you wise enough to settle disputes between fellow Christians?Instead, does a Christian sue a Christian, and do this before unbelievers?The fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves demonstrates that you have already been defeated. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
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2 Timothy 2 23-2 Timothy 2 25
But reject foolish and ignorant controversies, because you know they breed infighting.And the Lord’s slave must not engage in heated disputes but be kind toward all, an apt teacher, patient,correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth
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Genesis 27:42
When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him,“ Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.
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Galatians 5:20
idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions,
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1 Samuel 25 14-1 Samuel 25 17
But one of the servants told Nabal’s wife Abigail,“ David sent messengers from the desert to greet our lord, but he screamed at them.These men were very good to us. They did not insult us, nor did we sustain any loss during the entire time we were together in the field.Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.Now be aware of this, and see what you can do. For disaster has been planned for our lord and his entire household. He is such a wicked person that no one tells him anything!”
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Proverbs 13:10
With pride comes only contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised.
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James 4:1-2
Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;
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2 Corinthians 12 20
For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
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1 Corinthians 11 18
For in the first place, when you come together as a church I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
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Genesis 37:2
This is the account of Jacob. Joseph, his seventeen-year-old son, was taking care of the flocks with his brothers. Now he was a youngster working with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.
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Philippians 2:14
Do everything without grumbling or arguing,