10 Bible Verses about Arguing

Call to mind these things, charging [men] before the Lord not to debate about words, to no profit, to the subversion of the hearers.

and the servant of the Lord must not contend, but must be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

Do all things without complainings and disputations,

for you are yet carnal. For when there is envy and strife among you are you not carnal and walk as men?

Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members? You desire and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and carry on war. You have not, because you do not ask; you ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures.

For I fear lest when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found such as you wish not; lest there shall be strife, envy, anger, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, pride, dissensions;

But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

If any one teaches differently, and consents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to piety, he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions, and wranglings of men of unsound judgments and destitute of the truth, supposing that piety is gain.

For I have been informed of you, my brothers, by the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome man, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious,