21 Bible Verses about Arguing
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Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the ruin of the hearers.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
For you are yet carnal: for while there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their possessions were great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled then in the land. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray you, between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren.
From where come wars and fightings among you? come they not from here, even of your lusts that war in your members? You lust, and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not. You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.
Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found unto you such as you desire not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, conceit, tumults:
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a whole house.
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Cast out the scoffer, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.
Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What do you make? or of your work, He has no hands?
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a contentious woman in a whole house.
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting over questions and disputes of words, out of which comes envy, strife, railings, evil suspicions, Perverse wranglings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
For it has been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them who are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
Not given to wine, not violent, not greedy of money; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.
