| It is to one’s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel. | It is honorable for a man to stop striving, Since any fool can start a quarrel. |
| A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends. | A perverse man sows strife, And a whisperer separates the best of friends. |
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| Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. | Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all sins. |
| The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating. | A fool’s lips enter into contention, And his mouth calls for blows. |
| Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice. | By pride comes nothing but strife, But with the well-advised is wisdom. |
| The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. | 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. |
| For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. | For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. |
| Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves. | Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. |
