21 Bible Verses about Arguing
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Of these things put them in remembrance, and testify before the Lord, that they strive not about words, which is to no profit, but to pervert the hearers.
But the servant of the Lord must not strive: but must be peaceable unto all men, and apt to teach,
A soft answer putteth down displeasure, but froward words provoke anger.
For ye are yet carnal. As long verily as there is among you envying, strife and dissension: are ye not carnal, and walk after the manner of men?
so that the land was not able to receive them that they might dwell together. For the substance of their riches was so great, that they could not dwell together. And there fell a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. Moreover, the Canaanites and the Perizzites dwelled at that time in the land. Then said Abram unto Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me, and between my herdsmen and thine, for we be brethren.
Among the proud there is ever strife; but among those that do all things with advisement, there is wisdom.
From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members? Ye lust, and have not. Ye envy and have indignation, and cannot obtain. Ye fight and war, and have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, even to consume it upon your voluptuousness.
Behold when ye fast, ye can find your own lusts, and can call cruelly on all your debtors. Ye fast to law and strive and to smite with fist wickedly. Fast not as ye now do, to make your voice to be heard upon high.
For I fear, lest it come to pass, that when I come I shall not find you such as I would: and I shall be found unto you such as I would not. I fear lest there be found among you debate, envying, wrath, strife, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, and discord.
It is better to dwell in a corner under the housetop; than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Foolish questions, and genealogies, and brawlings and strife about the law; avoid, for they are unprofitable, and superfluous.
Cast out the scornful man, and so shall strife go out with him; yea, variance and slander shall cease.
Woe be unto him that chideth with his maker, the potsherd with the potter. Sayeth the clay to the potter, "What makest thou?" or "Thy work serveth for nothing?"
It is better to sit in a corner under the roof, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
If any man teach otherwise, and is not content with the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine of godliness, he is puffed up and knoweth nothing: but wasteth his brains about questions, and strife of words, whereof spring envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings and vain disputations of men with corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, which think that lucre is godliness. From such, separate thyself.
Coals kindle heat, and wood the fire; even so doth a brawling fellow stir up variance.
It is showed unto me, my brethren, of you by them that are of the house of Chloe; that there is strife among you.
A brawling woman and the roof of the house dropping in a rainy day, may well be compared together.
not drunken, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre: but gentle, abhorring fighting, abhorring covetousness,
An indiscreet son is the heaviness of his father; and a brawling wife is like the top of a house, wherethrough it is ever dropping.
