21 Bible Verses about Arguing

Remind [people] of these [things], solemnly urging [them] before the Lord not to dispute about words. [This is] in no way beneficial [and leads to] the ruin of the hearers.

And the slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but be kind toward everyone, skillful in teaching, tolerant,

Do all [things] without grumbling and disputing,

A soft answer will turn away wrath, but a word of trouble will stir {anger}.

for you are still fleshly. For where [there is] jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not live like [unregenerate] people?

And the land could not {support them} [so as] to live together, because their possessions were [so] many that they were not able to live together. And there was a quarrel between the herdsmen of the livestock of Abram and the herdsmen of the livestock of Lot. Now at that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land. Then Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there not be quarreling between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds, for we men [are] brothers.

Only by insolence is strife set up, and wisdom [is] with those who take advice.

From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members? You desire and do not have; you murder and are filled with envy, and are not able to obtain; you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, in order that you may spend [it] on your pleasures.

Look! You fast to quarrel and strife, and to strike with a {wicked fist}. You shall not fast as [you do] {today}, to {make your voice heard} on the height.

For I am afraid lest somehow [when I] arrive, I will not find you as I want, and I may be found by you as you do not want. [I am afraid] lest somehow [there will be] strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, pride, disorder.

Better to dwell on the corner of a roof than [to] share a house with a woman of contention.

But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and contentions and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and fruitless.

Drive out a scoffer and strife will go out; quarrel and abuse will cease.

Woe [to the] one who strives with his {maker}, a potsherd among potsherds of earth! Does [the] clay say to the one who fashions it, 'What are you making?' and 'Your work has no hands'?

Better to live upon the corner of a roof than [with] a woman of contention and [in a] shared house.

If anyone teaches other doctrine and does not devote himself to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching [that is] in accordance with godliness, he is conceited, understanding nothing, but having a morbid interest concerning controversies and disputes about words, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions, constant wrangling by people of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who consider godliness to be a means of gain.

[As] charcoal [is] to hot embers and wood [is] to fire, so a man of quarrels [is] to kindling strife.

For it has been made clear to me concerning you, my brothers, by {Chloe's people}, that there are quarrels among you.

Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain and a woman of contention are alike.

not addicted to wine, not a violent person, but gentle, peaceable, not loving money,

A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping.