Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs. | Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. |
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends. | A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. |
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling. | It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling. |
A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. | A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating. |
Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice. | By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom. |
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. | Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. |
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. | For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. |
Doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself. | Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. |