10 Bible Verses about Arguing

These things remind them of, charging them before the Lord not to contend about words, which is profitable for nothing, and tends to the subversion of the hearers.

but to be gentle towards all men, ready to teach, patient under injuries,

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Because ye are still carnal: for while there is among you envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies? Ye desire, and ye have not: ye are envious, and jealous, and cannot obtain: ye fight and contend; but ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask wickedly; that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

For I am afraid least when I come, I should not find you such as I could wish, and I should be found to you such as ye would not: least there should be contentions, emulations, animosities, strifes, thwartings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: and least,

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

These things teach and exhort. If any one teach otherwise, and adhere not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but is delirious about questions and strifes of words: from which cometh envy, contention, calumnies, wicked suspicions, perverse debates of men corrupted in mind, and void of truth, accounting gain to be godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by some of Chloe's family, that there are contentions among you.

hospitable, able to teach, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of sordid gain, moderate, not quarrelsome,