21 Bible Verses about Arguing

Put these things in mind, calling to witness before the Lord not to wrangle for nothing useful, to the subversion of them hearing.

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,

Do ye all things without murmurings and discussions:

A soft answer will turn away wrath, and a word of pain will bring up anger.

For yet are ye carnal: for wherefore envy in you, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

And the land supported them not to dwell together, for their acquisition was a multitude, and they were not able to dwell together. And there shall be a strife between the shepherds of Abram's cattle, and between the shepherds of Lot's cattle; and the Canaanite and the Perizzite then dwelt in the land. And Abram will say to Lot, Now there shall not be strife between me and between thee, and between my shepherds and between thy shepherds, for we are men brethren.

Only by pride contention will be given: but with those being advised, wisdom.

Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures.

behold, for contention and strife ye will fast, and to strike with the fist of injustice: ye shall not fast as today to cause your voice to be heard on high.

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

Good to dwell upon the corner of the roof rather than with a woman of strifes and a house of community.

And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Cast out him mocking, and strife shall go out, and contention shall cease and dishonor.

Wo to him striving with him forming him! the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him forming it, What wilt thou make? and thy work, No hands to it?

Good to dwell upon a corner of the roof rather than with a woman of strifes and a house of community.

If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion; He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures, Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.

As charcoal to burning coals and woods to fire, and a man of strifes to kindle strife.

For it was manifested to me concerning you, my brethren, by them of Chloe, that there are contentions with you.

A dropping thrust forth in the day of rain and a woman of strifes were alike.

Not intoxicated, not a quarrelsome person, not occupied in sordid gain; but equitable, without fighting, exempt from avarice;

A foolish son a calamity to his father: and the strifes of a woman a dropping thrust out