6 Bible Verses about Strife

But it does not behoove the servant of the Lord to strive, but to be gentle toward all, competent to teach, enduring evil,

For I fear lest, having come, I may not find you as I wish, and may not be found by you as you wish; lest perhaps strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, calumniations, eavesdroppings, inflations, outfallings, are among you;

For it has been revealed to me concerning you, my brethren, by those who are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

for ye are yet carnal. For where there are envy and strife among you, are you not carnal, and walking about according to man?

But does brother go to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers?

I exhort, Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same thing in the Lord.

And there was a great clamor: and certain ones of the scribes on the part of the Pharisees, rising up, continued to strive, saying, We find nothing evil in this man: but has a spirit or an angel spoken to him?

Let us walk circumspectly, as in the day; not with revelries and drunkenness, not with debaucheries and impurities, not in strife and envy:

that nothing is to be according to self-seeking nor according to vain glory, but in humility esteeming one another better than yourselves;

For it has been revealed to me concerning you, my brethren, by those who are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

for ye are yet carnal. For where there are envy and strife among you, are you not carnal, and walking about according to man?

And proclaiming this, I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse. For in the first place, indeed you coming together, I hear that there are schisms among you; and I in part believe it.

And when you may hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not disturbed: for it behooves it to be so; but the end is not yet.

Then He said to them, Nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in divers places; and there shall be great terrors and signs from heaven.

who, being reviled, reviled not again; suffering, he threatened not, but gave up to the one judging righteously:

And Jesus having known it departed thence: and many multitudes followed him, and he healed them all. And He charged them much that they should not make Him known. In order that the word spoken by Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, saying, read more.
Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul took delight: I will place my Spirit upon Him, and He will proclaim judgment to the Gentiles. He will not strive, nor scream, nor shall any one hear His voice in the streets.

and He sent messengers before His face. And they going forward, entered into a city of the Samaritans, in order to prepare for Him; and they did not receive Him, because His face was going toward Jerusalem. And the disciples James and John, seeing, said, Lord, do you wish that we may command fire to descend from heaven and consume them? read more.
And He turning, rebuked them. And they went into another village.

Indeed it is already altogether a small matter to you, that you have law-suits one with another. Why do you not rather stiffer injustice? why are you not rather defrauded?

But I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil: but whosoever smites thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also: to him wishing to prosecute thee at law, and take away thy coat, let him have the cloak also.

But I exhort you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you may all speak the same things, and that there may be no schisms among you; but you may be perfected in the same mind and in the same disposition.

Remember these things, testifying before God, that they shall not fight with words, profitable unto nothing, for the overturning of those who hear.

For I fear lest, having come, I may not find you as I wish, and may not be found by you as you wish; lest perhaps strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, calumniations, eavesdroppings, inflations, outfallings, are among you;

But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth.

But it does not behoove the servant of the Lord to strive, but to be gentle toward all, competent to teach, enduring evil,

not given to wine, not a controvertist; but gentle, peaceable, not a money lover;

he has been inflated, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and controversies, from which come envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings,

But reject foolish and undisciplinary questions, knowing that they gender strife.

endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

but reject foolish questions, and genealogies, and strife, and controversies about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

But reject foolish and undisciplinary questions, knowing that they gender strife.

he has been inflated, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and controversies, from which come envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings,

For where there are envy and strife, there are contention and every evil work.

Some indeed through envy and strife, and some through good will, are preaching Christ: the latter from divine love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel:

For it has been revealed to me concerning you, my brethren, by those who are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

And there was a contention among them, which one of them seems to be the greater,

And they were silent: for they were disputing to one another in the way, who was the greater.

for ye are yet carnal. For where there are envy and strife among you, are you not carnal, and walking about according to man?

for ye are yet carnal. For where there are envy and strife among you, are you not carnal, and walking about according to man?

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, divisions, heresies, envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and things like unto these: which I tell you beforehand, as I did previously say to you, that those doing such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Do all things without murmurings and disputatious;

For it has been revealed to me concerning you, my brethren, by those who are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. And I say this, that each one says, I indeed am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

But does brother go to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers?

that nothing is to be according to self-seeking nor according to vain glory, but in humility esteeming one another better than yourselves;

Remember these things, testifying before God, that they shall not fight with words, profitable unto nothing, for the overturning of those who hear.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you may not be consumed one of another.

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, divisions, heresies,

Who is wise and instructed among you? Let him show forth out of beautiful conduct his works in meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, intellectual, and demoniacal. read more.
For where there are envy and strife, there are contention and every evil work.

Let us walk circumspectly, as in the day; not with revelries and drunkenness, not with debaucheries and impurities, not in strife and envy:

But Paul thought that he would not take with them, him who having departed from them from Pamphylia, and not having gone along with them into the work. But there was a paroxysm, so that they parted from one another, and Barnabas, taking Mark, sailed away into Cyprus.

And he speaking this, there was a dissension of the Pharisees and Sadducees: and the multitude was divided. For the Sadducees indeed say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both. And there was a great clamor: and certain ones of the scribes on the part of the Pharisees, rising up, continued to strive, saying, We find nothing evil in this man: but has a spirit or an angel spoken to him? read more.
And the dissension being great, the chiliarch fearing lest Paul may be torn to pieces by them, commanded the army, having gone down, to take him from their midst, and lead him into the castle.

But there was a paroxysm, so that they parted from one another, and Barnabas, taking Mark, sailed away into Cyprus.

For where there are envy and strife, there are contention and every evil work.

And he speaking this, there was a dissension of the Pharisees and Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.

Again there was a schism among the Jews on account of these words.

And there being no small contention and disputation to Paul and Barnabas against them, they delegated Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this question.

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?

And there being no small contention and disputation to Paul and Barnabas against them, they delegated Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this question.