'Dissension' in the Bible
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
A quick-tempered person stirs up dissension, but one who is slow to anger calms a quarrel.
A deceitful man stirs dissension, and anyone who gossips separates friends.
An arrogant man stirs up dissension, but anyone who trusts in the LORD prospers.
An angry person stirs up dissension, and a wrathful person is abounding in transgression.
Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? No, I tell you that I came to bring dissension.
So the crowd was divided because of Him.
When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes --
and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;
for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?
idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, factions,
Some are preaching the Messiah because of jealousy and dissension, while others do so because of their good will.
Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.
he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,