21 Bible Verses about Arguing
Most Relevant Verses
Remind them of these things, charging them before God not to fight about words; this is in no way profitable and leads to the ruin of the hearers.
The Lord’s slave must not quarrel, but must be gentle to everyone, able to teach, and patient,
A gentle answer turns away anger,
but a harsh word stirs up wrath.
because you are still fleshly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and living like unbelievers?
But the land was unable to support them as long as they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they could not stay together, and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land. Then Abram said to Lot, “Please, let’s not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives.
What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you? You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.
You fast with contention and strife
to strike viciously with your fist.
You cannot fast as you do today,
hoping to make your voice heard on high.
For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
Drive out a mocker, and conflict goes too;
then quarreling and dishonor will cease.
“Woe to the one who argues with his Maker—
one clay pot among many.
Does clay say to the one forming it,
‘What are you making?’
Or does your work say,
‘He has no hands’?
If anyone teaches other doctrine and does not agree with the sound teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the teaching that promotes godliness, he is conceited, understanding nothing, but has a sick interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarreling, slander, evil suspicions, and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.
As charcoal for embers and wood for fire,
so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers, by members of Chloe’s household, that there is rivalry among you.
A foolish son is his father’s ruin,
and a wife’s nagging is an endless dripping.
