30 Bible Verses about Conflict

Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?

Ever shun foolish and puerile discussions, for you know that they lead to quarrels.

For the desire of the flesh is against that of the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against that of the flesh, for they two are antagonistic, so that you may not do those things that you wish.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.

For I would have you know how great a contest I am waging for you and the brethren in Laodicea, and for all who have never seen my face.

Keep contending in the noble contest of the faith; seize hold on eternal life, to which you were called when you confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

while you wage the same conflict which you once saw in me, and now hear that I maintain.

but I find a different law in my bodily faculties, waging war with the law of my will, and taking me prisoner to that law of sin which is in my bodily faculties.

Dare any one of you who has a grievance against his neighbor go to law before heathen judges, instead of before the saints?

But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

For there must needs be also parties among you, in order that the good may be tested and made known.

"But if he will not listen to you, take one or two others along, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every word may be established. If he will not listen to them, tell the church;

For even after I reached Macedonia, my flesh had no rest, but I was troubled on every hand. Without were fights; within were, fears.

Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldly affairs, and I wish to spare you.

for you remember that although I had already borne ill-treatment and insult at Philippi, I took courage in my God to tell you the gospel of God, in the face of much opposition.

"leave there your gift before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother, first of all; then come and offer your gift.

But Peter and the apostles said in reply.

Oh, wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this slave of death?

"Do not suppose that I am come to bring peace on the earth; I am come not to bring peace, but a sword.

(And being in agony he kept praying more earnestly; and his sweat became as if it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.)

Rejoice in hope; be patient under affliction; continue stedfast in prayer.

"father against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

"Come to terms with your opponent quickly, while you are yet with him on the way [to the court], to prevent your opponent from handing you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and so you be thrown into prison.

"but if he will not heed the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

and wrangling between men whose minds are corrupt and destitute of the truth; who suppose that godliness is a source of gain.

and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety,