18 Bible Verses about Quarrels

Agree with your accuser quickly, while you are with him in the way, lest the accuser deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members? You desire and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and carry on war. You have not, because you do not ask;

For John said to Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife. And Herodias was displeased with him, and wished to kill him, but was not able.

Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping, and asking a certain thing of him. And he said to her, What do you wish? She said to him, Say that these my two sons shall sit, one on your right hand, and the other on your left, in your kingdom. But Jesus answered and said, You know not what you ask. Can you drink of the cup of which I am about to drink? They said to him, We can.read more.
He said to them; you shall drink indeed of my cup; but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but to those for whom it is prepared by my Father. And the ten hearing this were displeased with the two brothers.

And Barnabas wished to take with them John called Mark; but Paul thought not best to take with them one who deserted them at Pamphylia and did not go with them to the work. And there was a sharp contention, so that they separated from each other; and Barnabas taking Mark sailed to Cyprus.read more.
But Paul choosing Silas went out, commended to the favor of the Lord by the brothers.

and the servant of the Lord must not contend, but must be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient under evil, in meekness correcting the adversaries, that God may give them a change of mind to a knowledge of the truth, and that they may recover themselves from the snare of the devil, who are made captives by him to his will.

forbearing one another, and forgiving one another if any one has a charge against any, as Christ forgave you, so [do] you also,

Do nothing in strife or vain glory, but in humility let each esteem others better than himself, and let each consider not his own interests, but also those of others.

But foolish and trifling disputes avoid, knowing that they produce contentions;

for you are yet carnal. For when there is envy and strife among you are you not carnal and walk as men?

It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach, not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome man, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious,

The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelries and drinking, not in lewdness and excesses, not in strife and envy; but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for desires of the flesh.

For I fear lest when I come I shall not find you such as I wish, and that I shall be found such as you wish not; lest there shall be strife, envy, anger, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, pride, dissensions;

If any one teaches differently, and consents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to piety, he is blinded and knows nothing, but has a sickly longing for debates and wars of words, from which arise envy, contention, blasphemies, evil suspicions, and wranglings of men of unsound judgments and destitute of the truth, supposing that piety is gain.

Call to mind these things, charging [men] before the Lord not to debate about words, to no profit, to the subversion of the hearers.

I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected in the same mind and the same will. For I have been informed of you, my brothers, by the family of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. I mean this; that each one of you says I indeed am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ.

And there was a contention among them as to which of them should be the greatest.