Bible Dictionary: Strife: Ministers should Avoid Questions That Lead To

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

2 Timothy 2:23
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do engender strifes.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

Questions About the Lord's Supper
... bishop's monitions, causes divisions, offences, strife, and controversy ... affirm, or
require her ministers to accept ... Why should not Churchmen agree to allow every ...
/.../chapter xx questions about the.htm

Hindrances to Revivals.
... resist it for fear of distraction, contention, and strife. ... 1. It is high time there
should be great searchings of heart among Christians and ministers. ...
/.../finney/lectures on revivals of religion/lecture xv hindrances to revivals.htm

The Cambridge Platform and the Half-Way Covenant
... was provocative of clashing interests and of factional strife. ... of all the preaching
elders and ministers within the ... order necessitating a Synod, it should be a ...
/.../chapter iv the cambridge platform.htm

Robert Nelson, his Friends, and Church Principles.
... disputes, and found relaxation in the strife of words ... interests of religion, than
that its ministers should be suspected ... you put, I wonder men should be divided ...
/.../the english church in the eighteenth century/chapter ii robert nelson his.htm

On the Interpretation of Scripture
... be heard in the turmoil of political strife; a merely ... is argued from Scripture that
adulterers should not be ... Yet to avoid misconception it may be remarked that ...
/.../on the interpretation of scripture.htm

Biographical Sketch.
... With the laudable desire of pacifying party strife, the Elector appointed a ... beloved,
as well as most celebrated, of all the ministers. ... "Why should sorrow ever ...
/.../gerhardt/paul gerhardts spiritual songs/biographical sketch.htm

In the Creation of the World, and all Things in It, the True God ...
... it is the Lord's pleasure that we should know concerning ... As God does not make angels
the ministers of his ... in error; he stirs up hatred, inflames strife and war ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 14 in the creation.htm

Paragraphs from Notable Speeches
... of liberty, and peace, not of anarchy, oppression, and strife! ... of my country, and
its enemy should enter only ... the folly and pride of all ministers, that they ...
/.../paragraphs from notable speeches.htm

Period ii. The Post-Apostolic Age: AD 100-AD 140
... Lord Jesus Christ, that there would be strife on account ... right, also, that the deacons,
being [ministers] of the mysteries of Jesus Christ, should in every ...
/.../a source book for ancient church history/period ii the post-apostolic age .htm

Political Parties in Connecticut at the Beginning of the ...
... of life of their opponents, entered into the strife and vituperation ... for in those
days the ministers were all ... when occasion required them, should, if possible ...
/.../chapter xiv political parties in.htm

Subtopics

Strife

Strife: A Work of the Flesh

Strife: Abimelech's

Strife: An Evidence of a Carnal Spirit

Strife: Appeased by Slowness to Anger

Strife: Between Abraham and Lot's Herdsmen

Strife: Christ, an Example of Avoiding

Strife: Christians at Antioch (In Syria), About Circumcision

Strife: Corinthians

Strife: Danger of Joining In--Illustrated

Strife: Difficulty of Stopping, a Reason for Avoiding It