54 Bible Verses about Conflict

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face,

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.

Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.

but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?

But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,

for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized.

But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Then Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.

For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn--fighting without and fear within.

But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.

But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict.

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

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.

You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the LORD will be enriched.

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

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

I set a snare for you and you were taken, O Babylon, and you did not know it; you were found and caught, because you opposed the LORD.

A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.

He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen."

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

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he could not move about freely because of Saul the son of Kish. And they were among the mighty men who helped him in war.

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

And Asa cried to the LORD his God, "O LORD, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, you are our God; let not man prevail against you."

The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.

You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'

Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,

with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord;

"You shall not move your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.