30 Bible Verses about Conflict

Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

But avoid foolish and unprofitable questions, because you know that they produce contentions:

For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against flesh; and these are opposed, the one to the other, so that you can not do what you would.

for our conflict is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the rulers of the darkness of this world, with the wicked spirits in the heavenly regions.

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on eternal life, to which you have been called, and for which you confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

since you have the same conflict that you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

but I perceive another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind, and making me a captive to the law of sin, which is in my members.

Does any one of you that has a matter of dispute with another, presume to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

for there must be sects among you, that the approved may be made known among you.

But if he will not hear you, take with you one or two more, that, by the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word may be established.

For when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest; but we were oppressed on every side: without were battles, within were fears.

But if you should marry, you would not sin. And if a virgin should marry, she would not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh. But I spare you.

But having suffered before, and having been outraged, as you know, in Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God in the midst of great peril.

leave your gift there before the altar, and go, first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

But Peter and the apostles answered and said: "We must obey God rather than men.

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body that subjects me to death?

Think not that I have come to send peace on the earth. I have not come to send peace, but a sword.

And he was in agony, and prayed more earnestly. And his sweat was like great drops of blood falling to the ground.

in hope, be joyful; in affliction, be patient; in prayer, be per severing;

The father shall be at variance with the son, and the son with the father; the mother with the daughter, and the daughter with the mother; the mother-in-law with her daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law.

Come to an agreement with your opponent at law quickly, while you are on the road with him, lest your opponent at law deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

But if he refuse to hear them, tell it to the church; and if he also refuse to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen man and a publican.

and wranglings, on the part of men who are corrupt in mind, and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a source of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness;