But Abraham rebuked Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had seized.

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. So he called the name of the well Esek, because they had contended with him.

And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and delivered them, and watered their flock.

for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like men?

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

For where envy and contention exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Where do wars and fightings come from among you? Do they not come from your lusts that war in your members?

And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; then as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.

On that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying: To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates;

the Hittites, the Perizzites, the giants,

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and since I am few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and kill me. I shall be destroyed, my house and I.

Then I said, What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

Do all things without murmuring and disputing,

that you may be blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may have need of nothing.

having your behavior honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.