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Don`t strive with a man without cause, If he has done you no harm.
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Avoid Needless Conflict
Commentators explain that this verse warns against two types of baseless conflict: petty verbal arguments and unnecessary lawsuits. The wisdom here is to avoid being quarrelsome or litigious when no real, substantive harm has been done to your person or property.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A marked change in style. The continuous exhortation is replaced by a series of maxims.
From them to whom it is due – litera…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Strive not with a man without cause , Either by words, in a wrangling, quarrelsome, and contentious way, for mere tr…
Our duty is to observe the precepts of Christ and to copy his example. We are to do justice, to love mercy, and to beware of covetousness. We are a…
