21 Bible Verses about Arguing
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Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to argue about words. This is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers.
The Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind (gentle) to all, able to teach, and patient when wronged.
Do all things without complaining (grumbling) (murmuring) and questioning (disputing).
A mild answer turns away anger. Harsh words stir up anger.
You are still fleshly! There is envy, strife, and divisions among you. Do you not walk as ordinary men?
But the land could not support them while they stayed together. Their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. Quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time. Abram said to Lot: Let us not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.
What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you? You lust, and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain! You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly (with bad motives) that you may spend it on your pleasures.
You fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist. You do not fast today to make your voice heard on high.
I am afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I fear that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.
It is better to dwell on the corner of the roof than to share the house with a contentious (combative) woman.
You should avoid foolish arguing and dissentions, questioning; and genealogies, and arguing about law, for they are unprofitable and vain.
Throw out the scoffer and contention will go away, yes, strife and reproach will cease.
Does a clay pot dare argue with its maker, a pot that is like all the others? Does the clay ask the potter what he is doing? Does the pot complain that its maker has no skill?
It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share the house with a contentious woman.
If any man teaches a different doctrine, and does not consent to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine that is according to godliness, he is proud, knows nothing, has a morbid interest in questions and disputes about words, which leads to envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, frictions between men corrupted in mind and lacking in truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle disputes.
The house of Chloe told me, my brothers, that there are disputes among you.
not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
A foolish son is a disgrace to his father. A contentious wife is like drips from a leaky roof.
