arguing (2:14). There have already been hints of this in the exhortations to being of one spirit (1:27) and one mind (2:2). An explicit reference to contention between two leading women in the church will appear later (4:2). The Greek words rendered “complaining” and “arguing” are the same as those used in the Greek Old Testament in the story of the murmuring of the Israelites in the wilderness wanderings, as is the language of the crooked and depraved generation (2:15; compare Deut. 32:5, 20).