Haller's Concordance: CONTENTION

• And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders which thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave the head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But thou, a forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full of compassion, didst not forsake them. 2 Esd. 9:17
• Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye. Job 6:29
• Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease. Pr. 22:10
• A hasty contention kindleth a fire and a hasty quarrel sheddeth blood and a tongue that beareth witness bringeth death. Sir. 28:13
• Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me. Jer. 15:10
• Onias, considering the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, who was the governor of Celesyia, and Phenicia, was outrageous, which increased the malice of Simon, went to the king, 2 Ma. 4:4
• For the sake of which they incurred a dangerous contention, and followed earnestly their ordinances, and in all things they coveted to be like them, who were their enemies and murderers. 2 Ma. 4:16
• Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers, Rom. 1:29
• Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy. Rom. 13:13
• For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal and walk you not according to man? 1 Cor. 3:3
• Some indeed, even out of envy and contention: but some also for good will preach Christ. Phil. 1:15
• And some out of contention preach Christ not sincerely: supposing that they raise affliction to my bands. Phil. 1:16
• Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves: Phil. 2:3
• I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention. 1 Tim. 2:8
• But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. Jas. 3:14
• For where envying and contention is: there is inconstancy and every evil work. Jas. 3:16
• And from the territorie of the Assirians the besiegers shal beseige them, and shal consume one of them, and there shal be feare and trembling in their armie, and contention against their kinges. 4 Esd. 15:33