13 Bible Verses about Contentiousness
Most Relevant Verses
But if you bite and devour one another, watch out [that] you are not consumed by one another.
A man who is hot-tempered will stir up strife, but he who is slow [to] {anger}, he will calm contention.
He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his high thresholds seeks destruction.
[As] charcoal [is] to hot embers and wood [is] to fire, so a man of quarrels [is] to kindling strife.
Why do you cause me to see evil [while] you look at trouble? Destruction and violence happen before me; contention and strife arise.
Better to live in a land of wilderness than [with] a wife of quarrels and provocation.
A ransom for the righteous is the wicked, and [the] faithless instead of the upright.
Precious treasure and oil [are] in the house of the wise, but the foolish person will devour them.
Better to live upon the corner of a roof than [with] a woman of contention and [in a] shared house.
From Thematic Bible
Contentiousness » The contentious spirit
He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his high thresholds seeks destruction.
A man who is hot-tempered will stir up strife, but he who is slow [to] {anger}, he will calm contention.
[As] charcoal [is] to hot embers and wood [is] to fire, so a man of quarrels [is] to kindling strife.
