54 Bible Verses about Conflict

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear is in me.

Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.

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.

For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

Like one who grabs a dog's ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

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

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

"Don't think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn't come to send peace, but a sword.

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Now these are those who came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in war.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, "Yahweh, there is none besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don't let man prevail against you."

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

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.

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;

in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.