10 Bible Verses about Arguing

Remember these things, testifying before God, that they shall not fight with words, profitable unto nothing, for the overturning of those who hear.

But it does not behoove the servant of the Lord to strive, but to be gentle toward all, competent to teach, enduring evil,

Do all things without murmurings and disputatious;

for ye are yet carnal. For where there are envy and strife among you, are you not carnal, and walking about according to man?

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members? You lust, and you have not: you murder, and you strive, and you are not able to obtain: you fight and you war; and have not, because you do not ask: you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures.

For I fear lest, having come, I may not find you as I wish, and may not be found by you as you wish; lest perhaps strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, calumniations, eavesdroppings, inflations, outfallings, are among you;

but reject foolish questions, and genealogies, and strife, and controversies about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

If any one teaches another doctrine, and does not give heed to the sound words which belonged to our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he has been inflated, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and controversies, from which come envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings, wranglings of men having been corrupted as to their mind and turned away from the truth, considering that gain is godliness.

For it has been revealed to me concerning you, my brethren, by those who are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

not given to wine, not a controvertist; but gentle, peaceable, not a money lover;