21 Bible Verses about Arguing
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Put them in memory of these things, charging them before the Lord not to dispute about words to no profit, to the subverting of the hearers.
But the servant of the Lord must not strive, but to be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient,
A soft answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
For you are yet carnal. For in that there is among you envyings and strife and divisions, are you not carnal, and do you not walk according to men?
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might live together. For their substance was great, so that they could not live together. And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land. And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray you, between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are men, brothers.
From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members? You desire, and do not have. You murder, and are jealous, 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 today, to make your voice to be heard on high.
For I fear, lest somehow coming I might not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you might not wish; lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, angers, contentions, backbitings, whisperings, proud thoughts, tumults;
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a quarrelsome woman and to share a house.
But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions, and strivings about the Law, for they are unprofitable and vain.
Cast out the scorner, and fighting shall go out; yes, quarrels and shame shall cease.
Woe to him who fights with the One who formed him, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to its former, What are you making? Or your work, He has no hands?
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than with a quarreling woman and to share a house.
If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to wholesome words (those of our Lord Jesus Christ), and to the doctrine according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing. He is sick concerning doubts and arguments, from which comes envy, strife, evil speakings, evil suspicions, meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.
As coals to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man to kindle fighting.
For it has been declared to me concerning you, my brothers, by those of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
not a drunkard, not contentious, not greedy of ill gain, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous,
A foolish son is ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a wife is a never-ending dripping.
