Parable of the Quarrelsome Child
Matthew 5:9
Illustration
by Staff

"Jimmy, why are you sitting there all alone?"

"Nobody wants to play with me. They always fight with me."

"Why don't you go over and see Billy?"

"No, he always wants his own way."

"You could play with Dick," said the mother.

"No, we had a fight this morning. I punched him in the nose and his mother sent me home."

"How about Jack?"

"We had a fight in the school yard."

"If everyone fights with you, maybe it's you," said the mother.

"See, you're picking on me, too. Everybody picks on m…

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