30 Bible Verses about Conflict

What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.

Always avoid foolish discussions with ignorant men, for you know that they breed quarrels,

For the cravings of the lower nature are just the opposite to those of the Spirit, and the cravings of the Spirit are just the opposite of those of the lower nature; these two are opposed to each other, so that you cannot do anything you please.

For our contest is not with human foes alone, but with the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark world; that is, with the spirit-forces of evil challenging us in the heavenly contest.

I want you to know what a battle I am fighting for you and for those in Laodicea, yes, for all who have never known me personally,

Keep up the good fight for the faith. Keep your hold on eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the good profession of faith.

since you are having the same struggle that you once saw me have and which you hear that I am still having.

but I see another power operating in my lower nature in conflict with the power operated by my reason, which makes me a prisoner to the power of sin which is operating in my lower nature.

When one of you has a grievance against his neighbor, does he dare to go to law before a heathen court, instead of laying the case before God's people?

But you must continue to remember those earlier days when first you received the light and then endured so great a struggle with persecution,

Yes, indeed, there must be parties among you, in order that people of approved fitness may come to the front among you.

But if he does not listen to you, take along with you one or two others, so as to have every word confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, report it to the church.

For even after I had gotten to Macedonia, my frail, human nature could find no relief; I was crushed with sorrow at every turn -- fighting without and fears within.

But if you do get married, you have not sinned in doing so. And if a girl gets married, she has not sinned in doing so. But those who do will have trouble in their earthly life, and I am trying to spare you this.

But, although we had just suffered and been insulted, as you remember, at Philippi, we again summoned courage by the help of God, in spite of the terrific strain, to tell you God's good news.

leave your grit right there at the altar, and first go and make peace with your brother, and then come back and present your gift.

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

Wretched man that I am! Who can save me from this deadly lower nature?

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

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ever happy in hope, always patient in suffering, ever persistent in prayer,

Father will be 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 to come to terms with your opponent while you are on the road to court with him, so that he may not turn you over to the judge and the judge turn you over to the officer, and you be put in prison.

And if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a heathen and as a tax-collector.

and perpetual friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, who imagine that religion is only a means of gain.

knowledge with self-control, self-control with patient endurance, patient endurance with piety,