Controversy
Controversy
kontro-ver-si (, rbh, strife, contention; , homologoumenos, confessedly, without controversy): Used frequently of disputes among men (as Deu 17:8) and then transferred to the justice of God as directed against the sins of men. Thus we read of Yahweh’s controversy with the nations (Jer 25:31); with the inhabitants of the land (Hos 4:1); with His people (Mic 6:2). Without controversy (1Ti 3:16), a positive rather than a negative expression, by common consent, or better, as unanimously confessed, introducing a quotation from a hymn or rhythmical confession of the early church.