30 Bible Verses about Conflict

What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?

Shun foolish and ignorant discussions, for you know that they only breed quarrels;

For these cravings of our earthly nature conflict with the Spirit, and the Spirit with our earthly nature--they are two contrary principles--so that you cannot do what you wish.

For ours is no struggle against enemies of flesh and blood, but against all the various Powers of Evil that hold sway in the Darkness around us, against the Spirits of Wickedness on high.

I want you to know in how great a struggle I am engaged for you and for Christ's People at Laodicea, and for all who have not yet seen me;

Run the great race of the Faith, and win the Immortal Life. It was for this that you received the Call, and, in the presence of many witnesses, made the great profession of Faith.

You will be engaged in the same hard struggle as that which you once saw me waging, and which you hear that I am waging still.

But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.

Can it be that, when one of you has a dispute with another, he dares to have his case tried before the heathen, instead of before Christ's People?

Call to mind those early days in which, after you had received the Light, you patiently underwent a long and painful conflict.

Indeed, there must be actual parties among you, for so only will the men of real worth become known.

But, if he does not listen to you, take with you one or two others, so that 'on the evidence of two or three witnesses, every word may be put beyond dispute.'

Ever since we reached Macedonia, we have had no rest in body or mind; on every side there have been troubles--conflicts without, anxieties within.

still, if you should marry, that is not wrong; nor, if a young woman marries, is that wrong. But those who marry will have much trouble to bear, and my wish is to spare you.

For, although we had experienced suffering and ill-treatment, as you know, at Philippi, we had the courage, by the help of our God, to tell you God's Good News in spite of great opposition.

Leave your gift there, before the altar, go and be reconciled to your brother, first, then come and present your gift.

To this Peter and the Apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men.

Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this Death?

Do not imagine that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring, not peace, but the sword.

And, as his anguish became intense, he prayed still more earnestly, while his sweat was like great drops of blood falling on the ground.]

Rejoicing in your hope; steadfast under persecution; persevering in prayer;

'Father will be opposed to son and son to father, mother to daughter and daughter to mother, mother-in-law to her daughter-in- law and daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law.'"

Be ready to make friends with your opponent, even when you meet him on your way to the court; for fear that he should hand you over to the judge, and the judge to his officer, and you should be thrown into prison.

If he refuses to listen to them, speak to the Church; and, if he also refuses to listen to the Church, treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the Truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain.

knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety,