Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Proverbs 13:10 · retained source text
Onely by pride commeth contention: but with the well aduised is wisedome.
KJV dictionary & concordance
contension
Meaning of “contension”
Strife, dispute, quarrelling, rivalry, or opposition.
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9 occurrences9 verses6 booksKJV PCE
First occurrence: Proverbs 13:10
Complete exact-word concordance
Every verse containing “contension”
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Proverbs 17:14 · retained source text
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therfore leaue off contention, before it be medled with.
A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Proverbs 18:6 · retained source text
A fooles lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Proverbs 22:10 · retained source text
Cast out the scorner, and contention shall goe out; yea strife, and reproch shall cease.
1611 marginal notePsal.101.6
¶ Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 15:10 · retained source text
¶ Woe is mee, my mother, that that thou hast borne me a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth: I haue neither lent on vsurie, nor men haue lent to me on vsurie, yet euery one of them doeth curse me.
1611 marginal noteIob 3.1. &c, cha.20.15.
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Habakkuk 1:3 · retained source text
Why doest thou shew me iniquity, & cause me to behold grieuance? for spoiling and violence are before me: & there are that raise vp strife and contention.
And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Acts 15:39 · retained source text
And the contention was so sharpe betweene them, that they departed asunder one from the other: & so Barnabas tooke Marke, & sailed vnto Cyprus.
The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Philippians 1:16 · retained source text
The one preach Christ of contention, not syncerely, supposing to adde affliction to my bonds:
But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Thessalonians 2:2 · retained source text
But euen after that wee had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, wee were bold in our God, to speake vnto you the Gospel of God with much contention.
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