21 Bible Verses about Arguing
Most Relevant Verses
Remind them of these things, solemnly testifying in the sight of the Lord, not to brawl verbally, to nothing useful, to the ruin of those who hear.
And a bondman of Lord must not quarrel, but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient,
for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together. For their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite then dwelt in the land. And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brothers.
Through pride a vain man causes contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised.
From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts? Ye desire and do not have, so ye murder. And ye envy and cannot obtain, so ye fight and make war. Ye do not have, because ye do not ask. Ye ask, and do not receive, because ye ask wrongly, so that ye may spend on your pleasures.
Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Ye do not fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, t
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
But avoid foolish questionings, and genealogies, and contentions, and legal fightings, for they are useless and vain.
Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out, yea, strife and reproach will cease.
Woe to him who strives with his maker, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are thou making? or thy work, He has no hands?
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
If any man teaches something different, and does not associate with wholesome words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to piety, he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but doting about disputes and word controversies, from which develop envy, strife, revilings, evil surmisings, constant frictions of men corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing piety to be a means of gain. Withdraw from such.
[As] coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame strife.
For it was declared to me about you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike.
no drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain, but meek, noncontentious, no lover of money,
A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
