54 Bible Verses about Conflict

What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?

But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing they produce quarrels (controversy) (fighting).

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. These are in opposition to one another that you may not do the things that you would.

These I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle.

Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.

Let me tell you how hard I worked for you, for the people in Laodicea, and for all others who do not personally know me.

A perverse man sows discord. A whisperer separates good friends.

Fight the good fight of the faith! Lay hold on everlasting life! You were called and confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

You have the same conflict that you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Then Jehovah will go forth and fight against those nations. It will be just as when he fought in the day of battle.

However I see a different law at work in my body. This law fights against the law that my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin that is at work in my body.

If you have a dispute with another [Christian] do you dare to go to a law court before judges who are ungodly? Why not let the holy ones decide who is right?

Remember the former days in which, after being enlightened, you endured great struggle with afflictions.

For there must be also heresies among you that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.

If he does not listen to you, take one or two more people with you. Two or three witnesses may prove every case.

Pride brings contention, but wisdom is with the well advised.

Sadness is mine! Why did my mother bring me into the world? I have to quarrel and argue with everyone in the whole earth. I have not lent any money or borrowed any; yet everyone curses me.

Abram said to Lot: Let us not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.

When we came to Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side, fighting on the outside and fears on the inside.

If you marry you have not sinned. If a virgin marries she has not sinned. Those who marry will face many problems in this life and I want to spare you.

He who meddles in someone else's quarrel is like one who takes a dog by the ears.

Better is dry bread in peace than a house full of feasting with discord.

Confuse their language, O Jehovah, because I see violence and conflict in the city.

After we suffered and were mistreated in Philippi, we had the boldness (confidence) in our God to speak the good news of God to you amid much opposition.

leave your gift at the altar and go make peace with your brother. Then return and make your offering.

Without wood the fire goes out. Without a talebearer strife ceases.

You rescued me from my conflicts with the people. You made me the leader of nations. A people I did not know will serve me:

The person with a proud heart stirs up discord. The person who trusts Jehovah will prosper.

Peter and the other apostles answered: We must obey God rather than men.

It is an honor for a man to cease from discord. Only fools start quarrels.

I will set traps for you, Babylon. You will be caught, but you will not know it. You will be found and captured because you have opposed Jehovah.

An angry man stirs up dissension. A furious man abounds in sin.

He (Ishmael) will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him. He will live in hostility toward all his brothers.

Miserable man that I am! Who will rescue me from the body undergoing this death?

Hatred stirs up strife. Love covers all sins.

Do not think I came to bring peace on the earth. I came not to bring peace, but a sword.

(possible spurious text) He was in agony and earnestly prayed. His sweat became, as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.

A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers.

The following men joined David at Ziklag while he was hiding from Saul son of Kish. They were among the warriors who fought beside David in battle.

Rejoice in hope! Be patient in tribulation. Continue in prayer.

They will be divided, 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.

Asa prayed: Jehovah, only you can help a powerless army defeat a stronger one. We depend on you to help us. We will fight against this powerful army to honor your name! We know that you will not be defeated. You are Jehovah our God. Do not let man prevail against you.

The sons of Ephraim were archers well equipped with bows. Yet they turned and ran in the day of battle.

You will not show partiality in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great. You will not fear man for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.'

Come to an agreement quickly with the one who has a legal case against you. Do it before he turns the case over to the judge and you are thrown into jail.

If he will not listen to them, let it come to the attention of the congregation. If he will not listen to the congregation, let him be to you as a heathen and a tax collector.

frictions between men corrupted in mind and lacking in truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.

Include self-control with your knowledge. Supply patience to your self-control. Your patience should be helped by godliness.

Fraud is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

Do not move your neighbor's boundary mark. The ancestors have set this in your inheritance. You will inherit this in the land Jehovah your God gives you to possess.