16 Bible Verses about Avoid Quarrels

The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.

he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

These things remind them of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And thy people are as those striving with a priest.

All things do without murmurings and reasonings,

Servants -- to their own masters are to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

ye do not strive with them, for I do not give to you of their land even the treading of the sole of a foot; for a possession to Esau I have given mount Seir.

and Jehovah saith unto me, Do not distress Moab, nor stir thyself up against them in battle, for I do not give to thee of their land for a possession; for to the sons of Lot I have given Ar for a possession.'

and thou hast come near over-against the sons of Ammon, thou dost not distress them, nor stir up thyself against them, for I do not give any of the land of the sons of Ammon to thee for a possession; for to the sons of Lot I have given it for a possession.