This is a time for collaboration, not Contentiousness.
Bitter jealousy and Contentiousness” in the hearts of true Christians?
And said:“Who is better,
our deities or he?” They said so only out of Contentiousness. They are a disputatious people.
But if you have bitter jealousy and Contentiousness in your hearts, do not be bragging and lying against the truth.”.
If you have bitter jealousy and Contentiousness in your hearts,” warned the disciple James,“ do
not be bragging and lying against the truth.
And although negative interpersonal bias or
poor listening skills surely enter into such Contentiousness, I think it's likely that unconscious forgetting
factors need to be considered as well.
Naming the truth- in particular the facts of one's experience, which no one can disprove-
with simplicity and sincerity, and without Contentiousness or blame, has great moral force.
James too, after giving firm counsel on the proper use of the tongue and
the need to avoid jealousy and Contentiousness, wrote:“ The wisdom from above is first of all chaste,
then peaceable, reasonable, ready to obey, full of mercy and good fruits, not making partial distinctions, not hypocritical.