12 Bible Verses about Problem People

When any of you has a legal dispute with another, does he dare go to court before the unrighteous rather than before the saints?

"If your brother sins, go and show him his fault when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have regained your brother.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, "Release my people that they may serve me!

So the people contended with Moses, and they said, "Give us water to drink!" Moses said to them, "Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the Lord?"

When the people complained, it displeased the Lord. When the Lord heard it, his anger burned, and so the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some of the outer parts of the camp.

Do not make friends with an angry person, and do not associate with a wrathful person,

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

"Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.

For certain men have secretly slipped in among you -- men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe -- ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.