10 Bible Verses about Arguing

Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord, not to strive about words, to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

And a servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle toward all men,

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

For ye are still carnal: for while there is among you emulation, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

From whence come wars and fightings among you? Is it not hence, from your pleasures that war in your members? Ye desire and have not, ye kill, and envy, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may expend it on your pleasures.

For I fear lest when I come, I should not find you such as I would, and lest I should be found by you such as ye would not: lest there should be contentions, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults, Lest my God should humble me when I come to you again,

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

If any teach otherwise, and consent not to sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is after godliness, He is puffed up, knowing nothing, but being sick of questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, contention, evil speakings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, supposing the gain is godliness. From such withdraw thyself.

For it hath been declared to me of you, my brethren, by them of the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Not given to wine, no striker, not desirous of filthy gain, but gentle, patient, not loving money;