10 Bible Verses about Arguing

Always call these truths to men's mind; adjuring them in the presence of God to avoid controversy. It is a useless thing, and subverts those who listen to it.

The Lord's slave must not quarrel, but must be kind to all men; a skilful teacher, patient of wrong.

Do everything without grumbling and disputes,

You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members? You continually crave and do not obtain; you are killing and coveting and cannot acquire; you are fighting and at war. You do not have, because you do not ask. You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.

For I dread that perhaps, when I come, I may not find you to be such as I wish, and that I may be found by you such as you do not wish; I dread lest there should be quarrels, jealousy, tempers, party spirit, slandering, gossip, arrogance, tumults;

But avoid foolish questionings and genealogies and dissensions and wranglings about the law; for these are unprofitable and empty.

If any one teaches heterodoxy, and refuses to consent to the wholesome words of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teachings of religion, he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions, and wrangling between men whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth; who suppose that godliness is a source of gain.

For it has been plainly told me concerning you, my brothers, by Chloe's people, that there are dissensions among you.

no drinker or brawler; but forbearing, peaceable, and no money-lover;