21 Bible Verses about Arguing
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Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together. There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time. Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members? You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask. You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don't fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
Woe to him who strives with his Maker -- a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?'
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions, constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.
not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
