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contentions
1. But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the
2. Whether the (Holy) Scriptures should remain subject to generational contentions or modern interpretations, much in the manner that Constitutional Law is persuaded by the (legal) authority of evolving standards of decency, such arguments that otherwise provide recourse to alternative viewpoints, must be equally troubling as arbitrary viewpoints relating to Papal Infallibility or the Divine Rights of Kings!
3. contentions to cease, and separtes between the mighty; The brother offended is harder to be won than the strong city, and their
4. contentions are like the bars of the castle; the man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth, and with the increase of his
5. lion; but his favour is like dew on the grass; The foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual
6. has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
7. judge, if he should not forgive them that are cured with his word, and put out the multitude of contentions, 70 There should be very
8. A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping
9. 69 And being judge if he should not forgive them that are cured with his word and put out the multitude of contentions 70 There should be very few left peradventure in an innumerable multitude
10. 4 And judgments and abusive talk and contentions and revenges and blood and passions and envy and hatred; And whatever things are like these shall go into condemnation when they are removed
11. The spirits of the air of Thursday are subject to the south wind; their nature is to procure the love of women, to cause men to be merry and joyful, to pacify strifes and contentions, to appease, enemies, to heal the diseased, and to disease the whole, and procure losses, or restore things lost
12. 1 The Jews entertained many ideas about the expected deliverer, and each of these different schools of Messianic teaching was able to point to statements in the Hebrew scriptures as proof of their contentions
13. Although he was wholly sympathetic with Paul in his mission to the gentiles, and though he supported him in his contentions with the church at Jerusalem, he bitterly opposed the version of Jesus' teachings which Paul elected to preach
14. But contentions arose between the Aquilonians and their Bossonian auxiliaries
15. Since you have documentation to back up your contentions, you should easily win enough in court to cover attorneys’ fees and then some
16. I've had many contentions with various leaders in different places over this kind of thing, and I believe that God is calling the church to prepare people for their destiny, not to use people to build some great thing
17. Moreover, those of the readers who reach out to people via mass media platforms, such as books (fiction or non-fiction), radio broadcasts, films, articles in newspapers, magazines or online portals, or the likes, can incorporate these contentions so as to dispel the prejudices enumerated in the book (it is necessary to specifically bring out the prejudiced notions and have them rebutted on the basis of facts and logic as has been done in this book; it is not sufficient to just have a Muslim character in a story who is a nice person from the point of view of changing mindsets of those strongly prejudiced against Muslims)
18. The contentions between husband and wife, parents and children were escalating, that their neighbors and friends are warned of impending breakdown
19. According to their own accounts, this proves the truth of their contentions
20. His accompanying problems can include adultery, sexual immorality, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, envy and drunkenness
21. The moment it comes out of mouth it becomes the object of different interpretations and logical contentions
22. fierce contentions? are you very strong? are you really of the
23. ) contentions would appear to prove him pretty badly addicted runs directly counter to accepted scientific methods
24. Graybeards in the Home Guard and members of the state militia, safe tablecloths to prove their contentions
25. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America
26. When the members of a tribe or a family unite together to form one community, they are naturally less hostile to each other, and the tribes and families are not so likely to die out; while among the citizens of a State subjected to one authority the contentions seem even less frequent, and hence is the life of the State on a basis still more assured
27. It is impossible to prove either of these contentions by abstract reasoning
