“contend” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word contend appears 18 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 18 matching verses are shown below.
- Job 9:3 If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.
- Job 23:6 I would not that he should contend with me with much strength, nor overwhelm me with the weight of his greatness.
- Proverbs 24:19 Contend not with the wicked, nor seek to be like the ungodly.
- Proverbs 29:9 If a wise man contend with a fool, whether he be angry, or laugh, he shall find no rest.
- Ecclesiastes 6:10 He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is a man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.
- Ecclesiasticus 8:2 Contend not with a rich man, lest he bring an action against thee.
- Isaias 50:8 He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.
- Isaias 57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be angry unto the end: because the spirit shall go forth from my face, and breathings I will make.
- Jeremias 2:9 Therefore will I yet contend in judgment with you, saith the Lord, and I will plead with your children.
- Jeremias 2:29 Why will you contend with me in judgment? you have all forsaken me, saith the Lord.
- Jeremias 2:35 And thou hast said: I am without sin and am innocent: and therefore let thy anger be turned away from me. Behold, I will contend with thee in judgment, because thou hast said: I have not sinned.
- Jeremias 12:5 If thou hast been wearied with running with footmen, how canst thou contend with horses? and if thou hast been secure in a land of peace, what wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?
- Micheas 6:1 Hear ye what the Lord saith: Arise, contend thou in judgment against the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.
- Matthew 5:40 And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him.
- Matthew 12:19 He shall not contend, nor cry out, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.
- 2 Timothy 2:14 Of these things put them in mind, charging them before the Lord. Contend not in words: for it is to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
- James 4:2 You covet, and have not: you kill and envy and cannot obtain. You contend and war, and you have not: because you ask not.
- Jude 1:3 Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your common salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.