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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:

And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,