54 Bible Verses about Conflict

Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will -- these ye may not do;

That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

the same conflict having, such as ye saw in me, and now hear of in me.

And gone forth hath Jehovah, And He hath fought against those nations, As in the day of His fighting in a day of conflict.

and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members.

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,

for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;

and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled is wisdom.

Woe to me, my mother, For thou hast borne me a man of strife, And a man of contention to all the land, I have not lent on usury, Nor have they lent on usury to me -- All of them are reviling me.

And Abram saith unto Lot, 'Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we are men -- brethren.

for also we, having come to Macedonia, no relaxation hath our flesh had, but on every side we are in tribulation, without are fightings, within -- fears;

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

Laying hold on the ears of a dog, Is a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.

Better is a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.

Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

but having both suffered before, and having been injuriously treated (as ye have known) in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the good news of God in much conflict,

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

Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,

Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of the people, Thou placest me for a head of nations, A people I have not known do serve me.

Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, 'To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

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

I have laid a snare for thee, And also -- thou art captured, O Babylon, And thou -- thou hast known, Thou hast been found, and also art caught, For against Jehovah thou hast stirred thyself up.

An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

and he is a wild-ass man, his hand against every one, and every one's hand against him -- and before the face of all his brethren he dwelleth.'

A wretched man I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

'Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;

and having been in agony, he was more earnestly praying, and his sweat became, as it were, great drops of blood falling upon the ground.

A false witness who doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

And these are those coming in unto David to Ziklag, while shut up because of Saul son of Kish, and they are among the mighty ones, helping the battle,

in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'

And Asa calleth unto Jehovah his God, and saith, 'Jehovah! it is nothing with Thee to help, between the mighty and those who have no power; help us, O Jehovah, our God, for on Thee we have leant, and in Thy name we have come against this multitude; O Jehovah, our God thou art; let him not prevail with Thee -- mortal man!

Sons of Ephraim -- armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.

ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;

'Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,

And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,

Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

'Thou dost not remove a border of thy neighbour, which they of former times have made, in thine inheritance, which thou dost inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it.