4 Bible Verses about Contention, Causes

Pride shall certainly give birth to contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

But Paul thought it not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia and did not go with them to the work. And the contention was so sharp between them that they departed asunder one from the other, and so Barnabas took Mark and sailed unto Cyprus;

For it has been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. In other words, that each one of you says, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ. Is the Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye are not consumed one of another.