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Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,
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1 Corinthians 1 11
For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.
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1 Peter 2 1
Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,
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Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!
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Psalms 41:7
All who hate me whisper together against me; Against me they devise my hurt.
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2 Corinthians 13 9-2 Corinthians 13 10
For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete.Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the authority which the Lord has given me for edification and not for destruction.
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1 Corinthians 4 6-1 Corinthians 4 8
Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the other.For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?You are already full! You are already rich! You have reigned as kings without us— and indeed I could wish you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
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2 Corinthians 1 23-2 Corinthians 2 4
Moreover I call God as witness against my soul, that to spare you I came no more to Corinth.Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand.But I determined this within myself, that I would not come again to you in sorrow.For if I make you sorrowful, then who is he who makes me glad but the one who is made sorrowful by me?And I wrote this very thing to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow over those from whom I ought to have joy, having confidence in you all that my joy is the joy of you all.For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.
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1 Corinthians 14 33
For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches 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 wills, and I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.For the kingdom of God 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
Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?No, you yourselves do wrong and cheat, and you do these things to your brethren!
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Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Ephesians 4:31-32
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
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James 3:14-16
But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.
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1 Corinthians 5 3-1 Corinthians 5 5
For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged( as though I were present) him who has so done this deed.In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his 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 carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?For when one says,“ I am of Paul,” and another,“ I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?
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James 4:1-5
Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with 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 dwells in us yearns jealously”?
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Galatians 5:26
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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2 Corinthians 10 8-2 Corinthians 10 9
For even if I should boast somewhat more about our authority, which the Lord gave us for edification and not for your destruction, I shall not be ashamed—lest I seem to terrify you by letters.
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2 Corinthians 10 2
But I beg you that when I am present I may not be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.
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Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man sows strife, And a whisperer separates the best of friends.
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1 Corinthians 11 16-1 Corinthians 11 19
But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.Now in giving these instructions I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse.For first of all, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.For there must also be factions among you, that those who are approved may be recognized among you.
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Jude 1:16
These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.
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2 Corinthians 10 6
and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
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2 Corinthians 12 21
lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication, and lewdness which they have practiced.
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2 Peter 2 18
For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.
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1 Corinthians 14 36-1 Corinthians 14 37
Or did the word of God come originally from you? Or was it you only that it reached?If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.
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2 Corinthians 13 2
I have told you before, and foretell as if I were present the second time, and now being absent I write to those who have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare—