10 Bible Verses about Arguing

These things represent, conjuring them by the presence of the Lord, to avoid disputes about words, which only serve to pervert the audience.

a christian must not be litigious, but easy to all men, qualify'd to instruct,

do every thing without murmuring and disputes:

for you are still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?

you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain. you quarrel and go to war, but without success, because you don't petition for it: and if you did, you would not obtain it, because you wickedly request to have your passions gratified.

yet I fear when I do come I shall not find you such as I would, and that you will find me such as you least desire: I am afraid there are among you debates, envyings, animosities, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, arrogance, tumults:

but avoid frivolous enquiries about genealogies, and vexatious disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

If any one deviate from this doctrine, not adhering to the wholesome instructions of our Lord Jesus Christ, the true doctrine of piety, he is full of pride and ignorance, touch'd with a spirit of chicanery and wrangling, productive of envy, contention, calumny, mischievous opinions, and a familiarity with pernicious ignorant impostors, who consider religion only as it makes for their gain.

for I have been inform'd, my brethren, by some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you.

not given to wine or violence, but of a gentle temper, averse to contention and avarice: a master of economy,