21 Bible Verses about Arguing
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Remind people of these things and solemnly charge them before the Lord not to wrangle over words. This is of no benefit; it just brings ruin on those who listen.
And the Lord's slave must not engage in heated disputes but be kind toward all, an apt teacher, patient,
A gentle response turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.
for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?
But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another. So there were quarrels between Abram's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen. (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.) Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.
Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you? You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask; you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.
Look, your fasting is accompanied by arguments, brawls, and fistfights. Do not fast as you do today, trying to make your voice heard in heaven.
For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.
But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, quarrels, and fights about the law, because they are useless and empty.
Drive out the scorner and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease.
One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, "What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!"
It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.
If someone spreads false teachings and does not agree with sound words (that is, those of our Lord Jesus Christ) and with the teaching that accords with godliness, he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions, and constant bickering by people corrupted in their minds and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a way of making a profit.
Like charcoal is to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious person to kindle strife.
For members of Chloe's household have made it clear to me, my brothers and sisters, that there are quarrels among you.
not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.
A foolish child is the ruin of his father, and a contentious wife is like a constant dripping.
