For I have been informedconcerningyou, my brethren,by Chloe's[people], that there are quarrelsamongyou.
Now when the wordsof her eldersonEsauwere reportedto Rebekah,she sentand calledher youngersonJacob,and saidto him, "Beholdyour brotherEsauis consolinghimself concerning you [by planning] to killyou.
Theseare [the records of] the generationsof Jacob.Joseph,when seventeenyearsof age,was pasturingthe flockwith his brotherswhile he was [still] a youth,along with the sonsof Bilhahand the sonsof Zilpah,his father'swives.And Josephbroughtback a badreportabout them to their father.
Through insolencecomesnothingbut strife,But wisdomis with those who receivecounsel.
A fool'slipsbringstrife,And his mouthcallsfor blows.
NowI exhortyou, brethren,by the nameof our LordJesusChrist,that you allagreeand that there be nodivisionsamongyou, but that you be made completein the samemindand in the samejudgment.
NowI meanthis,that each oneof you is saying,"I amof Paul,"and "I of Apollos,"and "I of Cephas,"and "I of Christ."
For, in the firstplace, when you come togetheras a church,I hearthat divisionsexistamongyou; and in partI believeit.
for you are stillfleshly.For sincethere is jealousyand strifeamongyou, are you not fleshly,and are you not walkinglikemere men?
For I am afraidthat perhapswhen I comeI may findyou to be not whatI wishand may be foundby you to be not whatyou wish;that perhaps[there will be] strife,jealousy,angry tempers,disputes,slanders,gossip,arrogance,disturbances;
But ifyou biteand devouroneanother,take carethat you are not consumedby one another.
idolatry,sorcery,enmities,strife,jealousy,outbursts of anger,disputes,dissensions,factions,
Let us not becomeboastful,challengingoneanother,envyingone another.
Doall thingswithoutgrumblingordisputing;
he is conceited[and] understandsnothing;but he has a morbid interestin controversial questionsand disputes about words,out of whichariseenvy,strife,abusive language,evilsuspicions,
But avoidfoolishcontroversiesand genealogiesand strifeand disputesabout the Law,for they are unprofitableand worthless.
