²⁵ And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

⁴ And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

⁷ And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

⁸ And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

¹ Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

¹⁵ But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

¹⁶ For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.