10 Bible Verses about Arguing

Put them in mind of these things, adjuring them before the Lord not to quarrel about words of no use, but tending to the perversion of the audience.

And a servant of the Lord ought not to quarrel; but to be gentle to all men, apt to teach, forbearing,

Do all things without murmurings or disputes:

For ye are still carnal: for since there are among you envy, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as [other] men?

FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members? Ye eagerly covet, yet have not: ye murder, and are envious, yet cannot obtain [your object]; ye wage war, but have not, because ye pray not. Ye ask, and receive nothing, because ye ask vilely, in order to consume it on your sensual appetites.

For I am afraid that when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found of you such as ye would not: lest haply there be contentions, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

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

If any man teach another doctrine, and attend not to the sound words, which are those of Jesus Christ our Lord, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is conceited, knowing nothing, but delirious with disputes and quarrels about words, from whence come wrath, contentions, evil speakings, wrong suspicions, perverse wranglings of men corrupt in mind, and destitute of truth, who think to make gain of godliness; depart from such men.

For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by those of the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

not addicted to wine, not using hard words or blows, not greedy of base gain; but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;