Sowing Discord
10 passages
- Romans 16:17–18
17Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them. 18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
Read it in context - Proverbs 6:19
a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.
Read it in context - James 4:11
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
Read it in context - Proverbs 6:14
With deceit in his heart he devises evil; he continually sows discord.
Read it in context - Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Read it in context - Proverbs 17:9
Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.
Read it in context - Titus 3:9–11
9But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless. 10Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition, 11knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.
Read it in context - Ephesians 5:11
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
Read it in context - Galatians 6:1
Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.
Read it in context - Galatians 5:19–21
19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; 20idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, 21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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