They are filled ¹  with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with ²  envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

For even when we came into Macedonia, our body ¹  had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way – struggles from the outside, fears from within.

he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

Remind people ¹  of these things and solemnly charge them ²  before the Lord ³  not to wrangle over words. This is of no benefit; it just brings ruin on those who listen. ⁴ 

So Jacob was left alone. Then a man ¹  wrestled ²  with him until daybreak. ³ 

“If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, ¹  but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides. ² 

Each soldier had taken plunder for himself.

It was some time after this when the Ammonites fought with Israel.

David again assembled ¹  all the best ²  men in Israel, thirty thousand in number.

¹ So Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal city.

There was no war between Syria and Israel for three years. ¹ 

At that time King Jehoram left Samaria and assembled all Israel for war.

Uzziah had an army of skilled warriors trained for battle. They were organized by divisions according to the muster rolls made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the authority of Hananiah, a royal official.

which I reserve for the time of trouble, for the day of war and battle? ¹ 

Deliver me from my distress; ¹  rescue me from my suffering! ² 

With pride ¹  comes only ²  contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised. ³ 

A perverse person ¹  spreads dissension, and a gossip separates the closest friends. ² 

The one who loves a quarrel loves transgression; ¹  whoever builds his gate high seeks destruction. ² 

The lips of a fool ¹  enter into strife, ²  and his mouth invites ³  a flogging. ⁴