Where it appears(showing the first 58 of 59)

• Gen 13:7There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.
• Exod 17:7He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
• Exod 23:2“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
• Exod 23:3You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.
• Exod 23:6“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
• Deut 1:12How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?
• Deut 17:8If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.
• Deut 19:17then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;
• Deut 21:5The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.
• Deut 25:1If there is a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.
• 1 Sam 24:15May Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.”
• 1 Sam 25:39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.
• 2 Sam 15:2Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”
• 2 Sam 15:4Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”
• 2 Sam 22:44You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.
• 2 Chr 19:8Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed Levites and priests, and of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 19:10Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.
• Job 13:6Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
• Job 29:16I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.
• Job 31:13“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;
• Ps 18:43You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
• Ps 31:20In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
• Ps 35:23Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
• Ps 43:1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
• Ps 55:9Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.
• Ps 74:22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
• Ps 119:154Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.
• Prov 15:18A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.
• Prov 17:1Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.
• Prov 17:14The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
• Prov 18:6A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
• Prov 18:17He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.
• Prov 20:3It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.
• Prov 22:23for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.
• Prov 23:11for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
• Prov 25:9Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another;
• Prov 26:17Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.
• Prov 26:21As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
• Prov 30:33For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”
• Isa 1:23Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
• Isa 34:8For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
• Isa 41:11Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.
• Isa 41:21Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons,” says the King of Jacob.
• Isa 58:4Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
• Jer 11:20But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I shall see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.
• Jer 15:10Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet everyone of them curses me.
• Jer 20:12But, Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.
• Jer 25:31A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword,”’ says Yahweh.”
• Jer 50:34Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
• Jer 51:36Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
• Lam 3:36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
• Lam 3:58Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
• Ezek 44:24In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.
• Hos 4:1Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
• Hos 12:2Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.
• Mic 6:2Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
• Mic 7:9I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light. I will see his righteousness.
• Hab 1:3Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.