21 Bible Verses about Arguing
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Remind them of these things, charging them in the presence of God, that they do not argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not walk in the ways of men?
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. There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time. Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members? You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you do not fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you do not desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.
Woe to him who strives with his Maker, a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth. Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, 'What are you making?' or your work, 'He has no hands?'
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and does not consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.
For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe's household, that there are contentions among you.
not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;
A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
