Language
Proverbs
18:17 -
He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
Matthew
5:25 -
Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
Matthew
18:15 -
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Matthew
18:16 -
But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
Matthew
18:17 -
And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Luke
12:14 -
And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?
Acts
15:2 -
When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
Acts
15:7 -
And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
Acts
15:39 -
And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
Romans
14:1 -
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
1 Corinthians
1:11 -
For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
1 Corinthians
6:6 -
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
1 Corinthians
6:7 -
Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
1 Corinthians
11:16 -
But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
1 Corinthians
14:33 -
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
2 Corinthians
12:20 -
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Galatians
5:20 -
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Philippians
1:17 -
But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.
Philippians
2:14 -
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
1 Timothy
6:4 -
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
James
4:1 -
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
James
4:2 -
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
James
4:3 -
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
James
4:11 -
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
James
4:12 -
There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?