For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.