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Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
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1 Corinthians 1 11
For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.
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1 Peter 2 1
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
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Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
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Psalms 41:7
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
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2 Corinthians 13 9-2 Corinthians 13 10
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
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1 Corinthians 4 6-1 Corinthians 4 8
Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
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2 Corinthians 1 23-2 Corinthians 2 4
But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.But I determined this for myself, that I would not come to you again in sorrow.For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made to grieve, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
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1 Corinthians 14 33
for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
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1 Corinthians 4 18-1 Corinthians 4 21
Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?
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1 Corinthians 6 7-1 Corinthians 6 8
Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?No, but you yourselves do wrong and defraud, and that against your brothers.
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Galatians 5:19-21
Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
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Ephesians 4:31-32
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
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James 3:14-16
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
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1 Corinthians 5 3-1 Corinthians 5 5
For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
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1 Corinthians 3 3-1 Corinthians 3 4
for you are still fleshly. 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?For when one says,“ I follow Paul,” and another,“ I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?
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James 4:1-5
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain,“ The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
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Galatians 5:26
Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
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2 Corinthians 10 8-2 Corinthians 10 9
For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
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2 Corinthians 10 2
Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
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Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.
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1 Corinthians 11 16-1 Corinthians 11 19
But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
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Jude 1:16
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts— and their mouth speaks proud things— showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
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2 Corinthians 10 6
and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.
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2 Corinthians 12 21
that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.
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2 Peter 2 18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
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1 Corinthians 14 36-1 Corinthians 14 37
What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 13 2
I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, I write to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;