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Strife (71 Occurrences)
... contest. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. WATERS OF STRIFE. strif. See MERIBAH.
Multi-Version Concordance Strife (71 Occurrences). Matthew ...
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Contention (24 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A violent effort or struggle to obtain,
or to resist, something; contest; strife. 2. (n.) Strife...
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Quarreling (17 Occurrences)
... For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you
fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men? (See NIV). ...
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Stirs (23 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs. (WEB
NAS RSV NIV). ... (WEB NAS RSV NIV). Proverbs 16:28 A perverse man stirs up strife...
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Envy (56 Occurrences)
... Romans 1:29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness,
covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits ...
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Envying (8 Occurrences)
... Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness,
not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. (KJV WBS). ...
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Emulation (5 Occurrences)
... Romans 13:13 As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness,
not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation. ...
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Dissension (18 Occurrences)
... producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious
divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel. ...
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Debate (13 Occurrences)
... against. 3. (vi) To engage in strife or combat; to fight. 4. (vi ... 5. (n.)
A fight or fighting; contest; strife. 6. (vt) Contention ...
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Stirreth (16 Occurrences)
... (See JPS ASV DBY). Proverbs 15:18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that
is slow to anger appeaseth strife. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT). ...
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Meribah (11 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Quarrel or strife. (1.) One ... Israel. The "Waters
of Meribah" was the name given to this scene of strife. The ...
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Jealousy (54 Occurrences)
... Romans 13:13 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness,
not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. ...
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Questionings (8 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 6:4 he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and
disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings ...
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Factions (5 Occurrences)
... For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't
you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men? (WEB). ...
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Disputes (18 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 6:4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes,
and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions ...
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Conflict (18 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting. 3.
(vi) To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide. ...
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Slander (34 Occurrences)
... evil-speaking (as in Psalm 34:13 Proverbs 15:28 Ephesians 4:31 Colossians 3:8 James
4:11 1 Peter 3:10), which is the cause of so much strife between man and ...
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Quarrel (22 Occurrences)
... or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion,
feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl ...
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Period (43 Occurrences)
... MAIN EVENTS 1. Struggles of Individual Tribes 2. Civil Strife 3. The Six Invasions
4. Need of Central Government V. RELIGIOUS CONDITIONS VI. ...
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Quarrels (10 Occurrences)
... Titus 3:9 but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about
the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. (See RSV NIV). ...
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Quarrelling (5 Occurrences)
... (DBY). Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of strife is 'as' when one letteth out water:
Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling. (ASV). ...
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Outbursts (5 Occurrences)
... I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you
don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of ...
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Wrathful (11 Occurrences)
... (KJV WBS). Proverbs 15:18 A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who
is slow to anger appeases strife. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS). ...
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Intrigues (4 Occurrences)
... Intrigues (4 Occurrences). Galatians 5:20 enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts
of passion, intrigues, dissensions, factions, envyings; (WEY). ...
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Immorality (38 Occurrences)
... Romans 1:29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness,
covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits ...
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Furious (28 Occurrences)
... vengeance. (See RSV). Proverbs 15:18 A furious man stirreth up contention; but
he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. (DBY). Proverbs ...
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Disorder (6 Occurrences)
... I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you
don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of ...
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Discord (7 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Lack of agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance
leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons ...
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Divisions (92 Occurrences)
... (BBE). 1 Corinthians 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying,
and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? ...
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Massah (5 Occurrences)
... mas'-a, mer'-i-ba (maccah umeribhah, "proving and strife"; peirasmos kai loidoresis):
These names occur together as applied to one place only in Exodus 17:7 ...
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Controversy (21 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Contention; dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions.
2. (n.) Quarrel; strife; cause of variance; difference. ...
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Contest (7 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation.
6. (n.) Earnest struggle for superiority, victory ...
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Carnal (11 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 3:1; sarkikos, 1 Corinthians 3:3); the lower side of their being is
dominant and not the spirit, hence, they fall into sins of envy and strife. ...
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Competition (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what
another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same ...
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Contentious (13 Occurrences)
... or contention; quarrelsome. 2. (a.) Relating to contention or strife;
involving or characterized by contention. 3. (a.) Contested ...
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Abounds (8 Occurrences)
... Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.
(WEB NAS). ... There is strife, and contention rises up. (See NIV). ...
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Appeaseth (5 Occurrences)
... YLT). Proverbs 15:18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is
slow to anger appeaseth strife. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT). ...
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Arguments (29 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 6:4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes,
and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions ...
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Struggle (16 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
6. (n.) Contest; contention; strife. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Stupid (20 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Stupid (20 Occurrences). 2 Timothy 2:23 But refuse foolish
and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife. (See RSV NIV) ...
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Striven (10 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Striven (10 Occurrences). 2 Timothy 4:7 the good strife
I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept, (YLT). ...
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Strifes (5 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes
of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, (KJV WBS). ...
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Produce (140 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 6:4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and
word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings ...
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Coal (7 Occurrences)
... in Proverbs 26:21, however, seems to stand for charcoal: "As coals are to hot embers,
and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to inflame strife." The same ...
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Proud (96 Occurrences)
... I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you
don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of ...
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Hatred (30 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Galatians 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of
anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, (WEB KJV DBY WBS YLT NIV). ...
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Reviling (47 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 6:4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes,
and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions ...
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Peace (523 Occurrences)
... But, of course, the spirit of the gospel and of the Christian is one of peace, and
it is a Christian duty to seek to bring war and strife everywhere to an end. ...
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Low (216 Occurrences)
... thoughts He said to them, "Every kingdom in which civil war has raged suffers
desolation; and every city or house in which there is internal strife will be ...
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Vain (141 Occurrences)
... (KJV DBY WBS YLT). Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory;
but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. ...
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Subapostolic
... He quotes Old Testament examples of the evil issue of envy and strife, and
of the blessedness of humility, submission and concord. ...
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Sub-apostolic
... He quotes Old Testament examples of the evil issue of envy and strife, and
of the blessedness of humility, submission and concord. ...
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Herdsmen (11 Occurrences)
... Genesis 13:7 There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the
herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the ...
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Fool (95 Occurrences)
... 24:7); ready to speak and act without thinking (Proverbs 10:14; Proverbs 12:16;
Proverbs 20:3); quick to get angry, quarrel and cause strife (Proverbs 11:29 ...
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Cease (138 Occurrences)
... Psalm 37:8). The significance of shabhath lies in its being the Hebrew for Sabbath,
implying complete cessation: as of manna (Joshua 5:12); strife and ignominy ...
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Foolish (259 Occurrences)
... 2 Timothy 2:23 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they
generate strife. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV). ...
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Walk (315 Occurrences)
... Romans 13:13 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness,
not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. ...
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Transgression (70 Occurrences)
... (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS). Proverbs 17:19 He loveth transgression that loveth
strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction. ...
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Anger (387 Occurrences)
... I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you
don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of ...
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Herdmen (6 Occurrences)
... Genesis 13:7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the
herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in ...
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Lot (145 Occurrences)
... cause of separation, as above stated, the author adds the two circumstances which
contributed to produce the result, namely, first, the strife that arose ...
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Woe (102 Occurrences)
... Who has sorrow? Who has strife? ... Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have
borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! ...
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Wo (92 Occurrences)
... Who has sorrow? Who has strife? ... Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have
borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! ...
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Laying (87 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 6:12 be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life
age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right ...
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Judges (117 Occurrences)
... MAIN EVENTS 1. Struggles of Individual Tribes 2. Civil Strife 3. The Six Invasions
4. Need of Central Government V. RELIGIOUS CONDITIONS VI. ...
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Quietness (15 Occurrences)
... WBS). Proverbs 17:1 Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full
of feasting with strife. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS). ...
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Vainglory (2 Occurrences)
... Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness
of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. (KJV WEY ASV). ...
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Vie (2 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge;
a wager. Multi-Version Concordance Vie (2 Occurrences). ...
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Vehement (10 Occurrences)
... (DBY). Proverbs 17:14 The beginning of contention is as when one letteth out water;
therefore leave off strife before it become vehement. (DBY). ...
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Vexeth (1 Occurrence)
... Vexeth (1 Occurrence). Proverbs 26:17 He that passeth by, 'and' vexeth himself with
strife belonging not to him, Is 'like' one that taketh a dog by the ears. ...
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Zin (9 Occurrences)
... Numbers 27:14 because you rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in
the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes ...
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Zion's (6 Occurrences)
... living there. (BBE). Isaiah 34:8 (For a day of vengeance 'is' to Jehovah, A
year of recompences for Zion's strife,) (YLT NIV). Isaiah 62 ...
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Keepest (16 Occurrences)
... Psalms 31:20 Thou keepest them concealed in the secret of thy presence from the
conspiracies of man; thou hidest them in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. ...
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Kindling (4 Occurrences)
... Kindling (4 Occurrences). Proverbs 26:21 As coals are to hot embers, and wood to
fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife. (WEB RSV NIV). ...
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Kinsmen (74 Occurrences)
... Genesis 13:8 Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you,
and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives. (See RSV). ...
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Kindle (25 Occurrences)
... (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV). Proverbs 26:21 As coals are to burning
coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife. ...
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Neighbours (34 Occurrences)
... (KJV JPS BBE DBY YLT). Psalms 80:6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours:
and our enemies laugh among themselves. (KJV JPS BBE DBY). ...
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Needy (83 Occurrences)
... him interest. (See NIV). Exodus 23:6 Thou dost not turn aside the judgment
of thy needy one in his strife; (YLT NAS). Exodus 23:11 ...
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Needless (3 Occurrences)
... Proverbs 23:29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints?
Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? (WEB NIV). ...
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Understands (16 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 6:4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes,
and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions ...
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