So quarrels broke out between the men who took care of Abram's animals and those who took care of Lot's animals. (At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were still living in the land.)

Then Abram said to Lot, "We are relatives, and your men and my men shouldn't be quarreling.

When his brothers saw that their father loved Joseph more than he loved them, they hated their brother so much that they would not speak to him in a friendly manner.

How wonderful it is, how pleasant, for God's people to live together in harmony!

But if you act like wild animals, hurting and harming each other, then watch out, or you will completely destroy one another.

Where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is also disorder and every kind of evil.