Strife

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 18:43 OT

  You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

• Psalms 31:20 OT

  In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

• 1 Timothy 3:3 NT

  not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

• 2 Timothy 2:24 NT

  The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

• Titus 3:9 NT

  but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

• Philippians 1:15 NT

  Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

• Philippians 1:16 NT

  The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

• 1 Corinthians 1:10 NT

  Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

• 1 Corinthians 1:12 NT

  Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

• 1 Corinthians 11:17 NT

  But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

• 1 Corinthians 11:18 NT

  For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

• Proverbs 20:3 OT

  It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

• Isaiah 58:4 OT

  Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

• Proverbs 18:6 OT

  A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

• Proverbs 17:19 OT

  He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

• Leviticus 24:10 OT

  The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.

• Leviticus 24:11 OT

  The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

• Habakkuk 1:3 OT

  Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

• Habakkuk 1:4 OT

  Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

• James 3:16 NT

  For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

• Exodus 21:18 OT

  “If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;

• Exodus 21:22 OT

  “If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.

• Galatians 5:15 NT

  But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

• Proverbs 17:1 OT

  Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.