21 Bible Verses about Arguing
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Remind them of these things, and charge them before Godnot to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.
And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,
for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
so that the land could not support both of them dwelling together; for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together, and there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land. Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.
By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.
For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish--that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
"Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' or 'Your work has no handles'?
It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.
not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.
