30 Bible Verses about Conflict

What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?

But avoid foolish discussions with ignorant men, knowing--as you do--that these lead to quarrels;

For the cravings of the lower nature are opposed to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are opposed to those of the lower nature; because these are antagonistic to each other, so that you cannot do everything to which you are inclined.

For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world--the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare.

For I would have you know in how severe a struggle I am engaged on behalf of you and the brethren in Laodicea and of all who have not known me personally,

Exert all your strength in the honourable struggle for the faith; lay hold of the Life of the Ages, to which you were called, when you made your noble profession of faith before many witnesses.

maintaining, as you do, the same kind of conflict that you once saw in me and which you still hear that I am engaged in.

but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body--the Law of sin.

If one of you has a grievance against an opponent, does he dare to go to law before irreligious men and not before God's people?

But continually recall to mind the days now past, when on being first enlightened you went through a great conflict and many sufferings.

For there must of necessity be differences of opinion among you, in order that it may be plainly seen who are the men of sterling worth among you.

But if he will not listen to you, go again, and ask one or two to go with you, that every word spoken may be attested by two or three witnesses.

For even after our arrival in Macedonia we could get no relief such as human nature craves. We were greatly harassed; there were conflicts without and fears within.

Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.

But, as you will remember, after we had already met with suffering and outrage at Philippi, we summoned up boldness, by the help of our God, to tell you God's Good News amid much opposition.

leave your gift there before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother first, and then return and proceed to offer your gift.

Peter and the other Apostles replied, "We must obey God rather than man.

(Unhappy man that I am! who will rescue me from this death-burdened body?

"Do not suppose that I came to bring peace to the earth: I did not come to bring peace but a sword.

while He--an agony of distress having come upon Him--prayed all the more with intense earnestness, and His sweat became like clots of blood dropping on the ground.

full of joyful hope, patient under persecution, earnest and persistent in prayer.

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

Come to terms without delay with your opponent while you are yet with him on the way to the court; for fear he should obtain judgement from the magistrate against you, and the magistrate should give you in custody to the officer and you be thrown into prison.

If he refuses to hear them, appeal to the Church; and if he refuses to hear even the Church, regard him just as you regard a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

and persistent wranglings on the part of people whose intellects are disordered and they themselves blinded to all knowledge of the truth; who imagine that godliness means gain.

along with knowledge, self-control; along with self-control, power of endurance;