2. Every one has heard people
quarrelling. Sometimes it
sounds funny and
sometimes it sounds
merely unpleasant; but
however it sounds, I
believe we can learn
something very important
from listening to the kind
3. They say things like this:
•‘How’d you like it if anyone did the
same to you?’
•‘That’s my seat, I was there first.’
•‘Leave him alone, he isn’t doing you
any harm.’
•‘Why should you shove in first?’
•‘Give me a bit of your orange, I gave
you a bit of mine.’
•‘Come on, you promised.’
4.
5. He is appealing to
some kind of
standard of
behaviour which
he expects the other
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Proverbs 18:17
The one who states his
case first seems
right, until the other
comes and examines
11.
12. What are the odds you would want to do it the done the
same way?
13. What are the odds you would think his way is better?
14. What are the odds you would go home and tell your wife how
brilliant he is?
42. Isaiah 55:8–9
For my thoughts are
not your thoughts,
neither are your ways
my ways,” declares the
43. As the heavens are
higher than the
earth, so are my ways
higher than your
ways and my thoughts
than your thoughts.
44. Isaiah 55:10–11 As the rain and the
snow come down from heaven, and
do not return to it without watering
the earth and making it bud and
flourish, so that it yields seed for the
sower and bread for the eater, so is
my word that goes out from my
mouth: It will not return to me
empty, but will accomplish what I
desire and achieve the purpose for
Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Minnesota. All three go with a White House official to examine the fence. The Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. "Well," he says, "I figure the job will run about $900. $400 for materials, $400 for my crew, and $100 profit for me." The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, "I can do this job for $700. $300 for materials, $300 for my crew, and $100 profit for me." The Chicago contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, "$2,700." The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?" The Chicago contractor whispers back, "$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence."
Harold G. Stigers, ed. R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999), 752. Harold G. Stigers, “1879 צָדֵק,” ed. R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999), 752.