54 Bible Verses about Conflict

Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? From here that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?

But foolish and unwise questions refuse, knowing that they do beget contentions.

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

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

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the lords of this age, rulers of this darkness, against spiritual wickedness in the heavens.

For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

The perverse man sows strife, and the tale bearer separates princes.

Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, unto which thou art also called, having made a good profession before many witnesses.

having the same conflict which ye saw in me and now hear to be in me.

Then the LORD shall go forth and fight against those Gentiles as when he fought in the day of battle.

but I see another law in my members which rebels against the law of my mind, bringing captive unto the law of sin which is in my members.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go unto judgment before the unjust, and not before the saints?

But bring to memory the former days, in which, after ye received the light, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

For it is expedient that there also be heresies among you, so that those who are proved may become manifest among you.

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

Pride shall certainly give birth to contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them curses me.

Then Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee and between my pastors and thine, for we are brethren.

For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have affliction in the flesh, but I forbear you.

He that passes by and meddles with strife not belonging to him is like one that takes a dog by the ears.

Better is a dry morsel in peace than the house of contention full of sacrifices for a feast.

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

but having suffered before and having been shamefully treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to announce unto you the gospel of God with much diligence.

leave thy gift there before the altar, and go; first restore friendship with thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out, so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the Gentiles: a people whom I did not know served me.

He that is of a proud heart stirs up strife, but he that puts his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We must persuade God rather than men.

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be meddling.

I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware; thou art found, and also caught because thou hast provoked the LORD.

The angry man stirs up strife, and the furious man abounds in transgression.

And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Hatred stirs up strifes, but love covers all sins.

Think not that I have come to introduce peace into the land; I came not to introduce peace, but a sword.

And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

a false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.

Now these are those that came to David to Ziklag, while he was yet restrained because of Saul, the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.

rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, constant in prayer,

The father shall be divided against the son and the son against the father, the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother, the mother-in-law against her daughter- in-law and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

And Asa cried unto the LORD his God and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many or with those that have no power; help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; do not let man prevail against thee.

The sons of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

Conciliate with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the congregation ; but if he neglects to hear the congregation, let him be unto thee as a worldly man and a publican.

perverse disputings of men of corrupt understanding, and destitute of the truth, using piety as a source of gain: from such withdraw thyself.

and in knowledge, temperance; and in temperance, patience; and in patience, fear of God;

there is perversion in his heart; he devises evil continually; he sows discord.

Thou shalt not reduce thy neighbour's border, which those of old time have marked in thine inheritance, which thou shalt possess in the land that the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit.