54 Bible Verses about Conflict

Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

But foolish and senseless questionings avoid, knowing that they beget contentions.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these things are opposed one to the other, that ye should not do those things which ye desire;

Which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of battle and war?

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual power of wickedness in the heavenlies.

For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;

A false man soweth contention; and a talebearer separateth very friends.

Strive earnestly in the good conflict of faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

having the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear of in me.

And Jehovah will go forth and fight with those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.

Dare any one of you, having a matter against another, prosecute his suit before the unjust, and not before the saints?

But call to mind the earlier days in which, having been enlightened, ye endured much conflict of sufferings;

For there must also be sects among you, that the approved may become manifest among you.

But if he do not hear thee, take with thee one or two besides, that every matter may stand upon the word of two witnesses or of three.

By pride there only cometh contention; but with the well-advised is wisdom.

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

And Abram said to Lot, I pray thee let there be no contention between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren.

For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears.

But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

He that passing by vexeth himself with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting with strife.

Swallow them up, Lord; divide their tongue: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

but, having suffered before and been insulted, even as ye know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the glad tidings of God with much earnest striving.

leave there thy gift before the altar, and first go, be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

Where no wood is, the fire goeth out; and where there is no talebearer, the contention ceaseth.

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; thou hast made me the head of the nations: a people I knew not doth serve me.

He that is puffed up in soul exciteth contention; but he that relieth upon Jehovah shall be made fat.

But Peter answering, and the apostles, said, God must be obeyed rather than men.

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife; but every fool rusheth into it.

I have laid a snare for thee, and thou, Babylon, art also taken, and thou wast not aware; thou art found, and also caught, for thou hast contended with Jehovah.

An angry man exciteth contention; and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

And he will be a wild-ass of a man, his hand against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell before the face of all his brethren.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of this body of death?

Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions.

Do not think that I have come to send peace upon the earth: I have not come to send peace, but a sword.

And being in conflict he prayed more intently. And his sweat became as great drops of blood, falling down upon the earth.

a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren.

Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he kept still close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men who helped him in the conflict;

As regards hope, rejoicing: as regards tribulation, enduring: as regards prayer, persevering:

father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And Asa cried unto Jehovah his God, and said, Jehovah, it maketh no difference to thee to help, whether there be much or no power: help us, O Jehovah our God, for we rely on thee, and in thy name have we come against this multitude. Jehovah, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.

The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment: ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the matter that is too hard for you shall ye bring to me, that I may hear it.

Make friends with thine adverse party quickly, whilst thou art in the way with him; lest some time the adverse party deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

But if he will not listen to them, tell it to the assembly; and if also he will not listen to the assembly, let him be to thee as one of the nations and a tax-gatherer.

constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be the end of piety.

in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,

deceits are in his heart; he deviseth mischief at all times, he soweth discords.

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have fixed in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess.