“contention” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word contention appears 15 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 15 matching verses are shown below.
- 2 Esdras 9:17 And they would not hear, and they remembered not thy wonders which thou hadst done for them. And they hardened their necks, and gave the head to return to their bondage, as it were by contention. But thou, a forgiving God, gracious, and merciful, longsuffering, and full of compassion, didst not forsake them.
- Job 6:29 Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.
- Proverbs 22:10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out with him, and quarrels and reproaches shall cease.
- Ecclesiasticus 28:13 A hasty contention kindleth a fire and a hasty quarrel sheddeth blood and a tongue that beareth witness bringeth death.
- Jeremias 15:10 Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.
- 2 Machabees 4:4 Onias, considering the danger of this contention, and that Apollonius, who was the governor of Celesyria, and Phenicia, was outrageous, which increased the malice of Simon, went to the king,
- 2 Machabees 4:16 For the sake of which they incurred a dangerous contention, and followed earnestly their ordinances, and in all things they coveted to be like them, who were their enemies and murderers.
- Romans 1:29 Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,
- Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.
- 1 Corinthians 3:3 For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal and walk you not according to man?
- Philippians 1:15 Some indeed, even out of envy and contention: but some also for good will preach Christ.
- Philippians 1:17 And some out of contention preach Christ not sincerely: supposing that they raise affliction to my bands.
- Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:
- 1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.
- James 3:16 For where envying and contention is: there is inconstancy and every evil work.