12 Bible Verses about Contentiousness
Most Relevant Verses
But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.
For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.
An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.
The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.
Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.
Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.
It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.
The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.
There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.
It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.
From Thematic Bible
Contentiousness » The contentious spirit
The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.
An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.
Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.
For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.
