54 Bible Verses about Conflict
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Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members
And silly and ignorant questions refuse, knowing that they produce strifes.
For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are adverse to one another: that not the things ye would, these should ye do.

Which I kept back for the time of straits, for the day of encounter and war?
For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.
For I wish you to know how great contest I have for you, and them in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
A man of perverseness shall send forth strife: and a tale-bearer separates friends.
Contend earnestly the good contest of faith, take hold upon eternal life, into which thou wert also called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.
And Jehovah went forth and waged war with these nations as the day of his warring in the day of encounter.
And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members.
Dare any of you, having an affair with another, be judged by the unjust, and not by the holy ones?
And recall to mind the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye endured a great combat of sufferings;
For there must be also sects among you, that the tried might be made manifest among you.
But if he hear thee not, take with thee yet one or two, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might stand.
Only by pride contention will be given: but with those being advised, wisdom.
Wo to me, my mother, for thou broughtest me forth a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth. I lent not on interest and they lent not to me on interest: they are altogether cursing me.
And Abram will say to Lot, Now there shall not be strife between me and between thee, and between my shepherds and between thy shepherds, for we are men brethren.
For also, we having come to Macedonia, our flesh had no relaxation, but pressed in everything; without conflicts, within fears.
And if also thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. And such shall have pressure to the flesh: and I spare you.
Laying hold upon the ears of a dog, he passing by overflowing upon strife not to him.
Good a dry morsel and peace with it, above a house full of sacrifices of contention.
Swallow up, O Jehovah, divide their tongue: for I saw violence and strife in the city.
But also having suffered before, and having been injured, as ye know, among the Philippians, we acted freely in our God to speak to you the good news of God with much contest.
Let go there thy gift, before the altar, and retire; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then, having come, bring thy gift.
In the ceasing of wood, fire will go out: and in not being a tale-bearer, strife will subside.
Thou wilt deliver me from the contentions of the people; thou wilt set me for head of the nations: a people I knew not shall serve me.
He enlarging the soul shall excite strife: and he trusting upon Jehovah shall he made fat
And Peter having answered, and the sent, said, We must obey God rather than men.
Honor to a man ceasing from strife: and every foolish one will be irritated.
I laid snares for thee and also thou wert taken, O Babel, and thou knewest not: thou wert found and thou wert also taken, for thou didst contend against Jehovah.
A man of anger will excite strife, and the possessor of wrath increased transgression.
And he shall be an unrestrained man; his hand against every one, and every one's hand against him; and before the face of all his brethren shall he dwell.
Hatred will excite strifes: and love will cover over all transgressions.
Think not that I came to cast peace upon earth; I came not to cast peace, but a sword.
And being in a violent struggle, he prayed more intently: and his sweat was as clots of blood coming down upon the earth.
A witness of falsehood, breathing out lies, and sending strife between brethren.
And And these coming to David to Ziklag, yet shut up from before Saul son of Kish: and they among the strong ones helping the war,
Father shall be divided 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 her mother-in-law.
And Asa will call to Jehovah his God, and he will say, O Jehovah, nothing with thee to help between many to those of no power: help us, O Jehovah our God, for upon thee we relied, and in thy name we came against this multitude. O Jehovah, thou our God; man shall not detain with thee.
The sons of Ephraim bending, lifting up the bow, turned in the day of the encounter.
Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it
Be kindly disposed to thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, lest thy opponent should deliver thee to the judge, and the judge should deliver thee to the assistant, and thou be cast into prison.
And if he refuse hearing them, speak to the church: and if he refuse hearing the church, let him be to thee as of the nations and a publican.
Unprofitable occupations of men corrupted in mind, and deprived of the truth, thinking gain to be devotion: be separated from such.
And in knowledge self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience devotion;
Perverseness in his heart, fabricating evil in all time, he will send forth strifes.
Thou shalt not remove the boundary of thy neighbor which they at first set bounds in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee to inherit it.
From Thematic Bible
Fasting » Instances of » Of the israelites » Conflict » tribe of Benjamin
And all the sons of Israel and all the people will go up, and they will come to the house of God, and they will weep, and they will sit there before Jehovah, and they will fast in that day till the evening, and they will bring up burnt-offerings and peace before Jehovah.
Israel » Before » Separation » Two kingdoms » Political » Conflict
And Abner son of Ner, will go forth. and the servants of the man of shame, son of Saul, from the two camps to the hill And Joab son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, will go forth and meet them at the pool of Gibeon together: and these will sit by the pool from hence, and those by the pool from thence. And Abner will say to Joab, Now shall the boys arise and play before us. And Joab will say, They shall arise. read more.
And they will rise and pass over by number, twelve to Benjamin, and to the man of shame, son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David. And they will seize each upon the head of his neighbor, and his sword in the side of his neighbor, and they will fall together: and he will call, that place Helkath-Hazurim, which is in Gibeon. And the war will be hard even exceedingly, in that day; and Abner will be smitten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David. And there will be there three sons of Zeruiah, Joab and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was swift in his feet as one of the roes which are in the field. And Asahel will pursue after Abner; and he turned not to the right or to the left from after Abner. And Abner will look behind him and say, This thou Asahel? And he will say, I. And Abner will say to him,. Turn to thyself to the right or to the left, and take hold for thyself from the boys and take to thee his spoils. And Asahel would not turn aside from after him. And Abner will add yet to say to Asahel, Turn aside for thyself from after me: wherefore shall I strike thee to the earth? and how shall I lift up my face to Joab thy brother? And he will refuse to turn aside: and Abner will strike him with the extremity of the spear in the belly, and the spear will come forth from behind him, and he will fall there and die in his place: and it will be, all coming to the place where Asahel fell there and he will die, and they will stand. And Joab and Abishai will pursue after Abner: and the sun went down and they came even to the hill of terror, which was by the face of Giah, the way of the desert of Gibeon. And the sons of Benjamin will gather together after Abner, and they will be for one band, and they will stand upon the head of one hill. And Abner will call to Joab and say, Shall the sword consume forever? knewest thou not that it will be bitter at the last? and how long wilt thou not say to the people to turn back from after their brethren? And Joab will say, God lives if thou spakest not, for then from the morning the people went up, each from after his brother. And Joab will strike upon the trumpet, and all the people will stand, and no more pursue after Israel, and they will no more add to fight. And Abner and his men went in the sterile region all that night, and they will pass over Jordan and will go to all Bithron, and will come to the two camps. And Joab turned back from after Abner: and he will gather all the people together and they will review from the servants of David nineteen men and Asahel. And the servants of David struck from Benjamin and upon the men of Abner, three hundred and sixty men died. And they will lift up Asahel and bury him in the grave of his father, which was in the House of Bread. And Joab and his men will go all night and it will shine to them in Hebron.
And long war will be between the house of Saul and between the house of David: and David went and was strengthened, and the house of Saul went and was weakened.
Topics on Conflict
Conflict Resolution
Matthew 18:15And if thy brother sin against thee, retire, and refute him between thee and him alone; if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Family Conflict
Luke 12:53Father shall be divided 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 her mother-in-law.
Resolving Conflict
Proverbs 20:3Honor to a man ceasing from strife: and every foolish one will be irritated.
Spiritual Warfare, As Conflict
Ephesians 6:12For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.
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