38 Bible Verses about Quarrels

Be kindly disposed to thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, lest thy opponent should deliver thee to the judge, and the judge should deliver thee to the assistant, and thou be cast into prison.

For the pressure of milk will bring forth cheese, and the pressure of the nose will bring forth blood: and the pressure of wrath will, bring forth contention.

The lips of the foolish one will come into contention, and his mouth will call for blows.

I peace: and when I shall speak, they for war.

Who reckoned evils in the heart; all the day they will gather together wars.

A man of wrath will excite strife: and he slow to anger will appease contention.

And she will say to Abraham, Cast out this maid-servant and her son; for the son of this maid-servant shall not inherit with my son, with Isaak.

A brother falling away, above a city of strength; and strifes as the bars of a fortress.

A foolish son a calamity to his father: and the strifes of a woman a dropping thrust out

Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not.

For John said to Herod, That it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife. And Herodias had a grudge against him, and desired to kill him; and could not:

Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, worshipping, and asking something of him. And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Say that these my two sons might sit, the one on thy right hand, and one on thy left, in thy kingdom. And Jesus having answered, said, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink the cup which I am about to drink, and be immersed with the immersion which I am immersed? They say to him, We can.read more.
And he says to them, Truly my cup shall ye drink, and with the immersion which I am immersed shall ye be immersed; but to sit on my right, and on my left, is not mine to give, but to those it was prepared for by my Father. And the ten having heard, felt pain about the two brethren.

And Barnabas purposed to take with them John, called Mark. But Paul deemed worthy, having withdrawn from them from Pamphylia, and not having come with them to the work, not to take him with them. Therefore there was an incitement, so that they separated from one another: and Barnabas, having taken Mark, sailed to Cyprus;read more.
And Paul, having chosen Silas, went forth, having been delivered to the grace of God by the brethren.

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil, In meekness instructing them being in a contrary state; lest perhaps God may give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth; That they may return to a state of sobriety from the snare of the devil, being taken alive by him at his will.

(Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.)

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves. Look ye each not on the things of themselves, but also each the things of others.

And if men shall contend, and a man struck his friend with a stone or with the fist, and he shall not die, and he fell upon the bed: If he shall rise and go forth without upon his support, and he smiting being innocent, only he shall give his resting, and healing, he shall be healed.

Hatred will excite strifes: and love will cover over all transgressions.

Only by pride contention will be given: but with those being advised, wisdom.

Honor to a man ceasing from strife: and every foolish one will be irritated.

Good to dwell upon the corner of the roof rather than with a woman of strifes and a house of community.

Cast out him mocking, and strife shall go out, and contention shall cease and dishonor.

In the ceasing of wood, fire will go out: and in not being a tale-bearer, strife will subside. As charcoal to burning coals and woods to fire, and a man of strifes to kindle strife.

A dropping thrust forth in the day of rain and a woman of strifes were alike. He hiding her, hid the wind, and he shall call the oil of his right hand.

And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes.

For yet are ye carnal: for wherefore envy in you, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction; Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

He loving transgression loves contention: he lifting up his gate seeks breaking.

behold, for contention and strife ye will fast, and to strike with the fist of injustice: ye shall not fast as today to cause your voice to be heard on high.

The night has advanced, and the day has drawn near: therefore let us lay down the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light. As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revelries and drunkenness, not in coition and licentiousness, not in strife and envy. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not consideration for the flesh, for the passions.

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion; He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures, Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.

Put these things in mind, calling to witness before the Lord not to wrangle for nothing useful, to the subversion of them hearing.

And I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same, and there be no divisions in you; and ye be set in order in the same mind and in the same knowledge. For it was manifested to me concerning you, my brethren, by them of Chloe, that there are contentions with you. And this I say, that each of you says, I truly am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

And there shall be a strife between the shepherds of Abram's cattle, and between the shepherds of Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite then dwelt in the land. And Abram will say to Lot, Now there shall not be strife between me and between thee, and between my shepherds and between thy shepherds, for we are men brethren.

And the shepherds of Gerar will contend with Isaak's shepherds, saying; The waters are to us: and he will call the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him. And they will dig another well, and will strive for that also: and he will call its name Sitnah. And he will remove from thence, and will dig another well; and they strove not for that: and he will call its name Rehoboth; and he will say, For now Jehovah made wide for us, and made us fruitful in the earth.

And a love of strife was in them, which of them thinks to be the greater.