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«Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.»
Author: Chuang Tzu | Keywords: contentious, petty
«Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come»
«It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: contentious
«A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: contentious, dropping, rainy, rainy day
«But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: contentious
«As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: coals, contentious, kindle, strife
«And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? / Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? / But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; / Who will render to every man according to his deeds: / To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: / But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, / Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; / But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: / For there is no respect of persons with God.»