30 Bible Verses about Conflict

Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

Shut your mind against foolish, popular controversy; be sure that only breeds strife.

For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please.

For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.

Striving? Yes, I want you to understand my deep concern for you and for those at Laodicea, for all who have never seen my face.

fight in the good fight of the faith, secure that life eternal to which you were called when you voiced the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

by waging the same conflict that, as once you saw and now you hear, I wage myself.

but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.

When any of you has a grievance against his neighbour, do you dare to go to law in a sinful pagan court, instead of laying the case before the saints?

Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering,

There must be parties among you, if genuine Christians are to be recognized.

but if he will not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that every case may be decided on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.

For I got no relief from the strain of things, even when I reached Macedonia; it was trouble at every turn, wrangling all round me, fears in my own mind.

Of course, if you are actually married, there is no sin in that; and if a maid marries, there is no sin in that. (At the same time those who marry will have outward trouble ??and I would spare you that.)

At Philippi, as you know, we had been ill-treated and insulted, but we took courage and confidence in our God to tell you the gospel of God in spite of all the strain.

leave your gift at the very altar and go away; first be reconciled to your brother, then come back and offer your gift.

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

Miserable wretch that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Do not imagine I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

he fell into an agony and prayed with greater intensity, his sweat dropping to the ground like clots of blood.]

let your hope be a joy to you; be stedfast in trouble, attend to prayer,

father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

Be quick and make terms with your opponent, so long as you and he are on the way to court, in case he hands you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and you are thrown into prison;

If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.

and constant friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the Truth. They imagine religion is a paying concern.

intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety,