The word agon is rendered as contention in 1 Thess. 2:2 — “we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.” Everywhere else in the New Testament it is used in a positive sense. It usually means conflict or fight (Phil. 1:30; Col. 2:1; 1 Tim. 6:12; 2 Tim. 4:7), and in one place it refers to a race (Heb. 12:1), and in all of them it refers to a struggle or fight of faith. But in this one instance it refers to the natural hostility that arises when someone preaches or lives out the gospel faithfully. The seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman don’t get along and never have.
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