10 Bible Verses about Arguing

Put them in mind of these things, charging them before the Lord that they dispute not about words to no profit, which disputes end in the overthrow of the hearers.

and the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but gentle toward all men, able to teach, patient under evils,

Do all things without murmurings and disputings,

for you are yet carnal. For, since envy and strife and divisions are among you, are you not carnal, and do you not walk as men?

Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members? You desire, and you have not; you kill, and are earnestly desirous of having, and yet you can not obtain; you fight and war, and yet you have not, because you ask not. You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your passions.

For I fear, lest when I come I shall find you not, such as I wish, and I shall be found by you not such as you wish: lest there shall be contentions, envies, excitements, strife, evil speaking, whisperings, party spirit, disorderly conduct:

But foolish questions and genealogies and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

If any one teaches other things, and does not assent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching which is according to godliness, he is mad with conceit, knowing nothing, but has a morbid fondness for questions and contentions about words, out of which come envy, strife, railing, evil suspicions, and wranglings, on the part of men who are corrupt in mind, and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a source of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

For it has been made known to me concerning you, my brethren, by the family of Cloe, that there are contentions among you.

not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means; but gentle, not contentious, not covetous;