Quotes about Contention

I cannot bear with laws for the interpretation of the word of God, since the word of God, which teaches liberty in all other things, ought not to be bound. Saving these two things, there is nothing which I am not able, and most heartily willing, to do or to suffer. I hate contention; I will challenge no one; in return I wish not to be challenged; but, being challenged, I will not be dumb in the cause of Christ my Master.

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”

But Jephthah replied, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called, you did not save me out of their hands.

You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.

Therefore, I will contend with you again, declares the LORD, and I will bring a case against your children’s children.

But let no man contend; let no man offer reproof; for your people are like those who contend with a priest.

As soon as he had said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

A great clamor arose, and some scribes from the party of the Pharisees got up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong with this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”