'Disputes' in the Bible

Now listen to me. I'll advise you, and may God be with you. You are to represent the people before God and bring the disputes to God.

But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?

"{If a matter is too difficult for you}, [for example disputes] between blood and blood, between legal claim and legal claim and between assault and assault [and between] matters of discernment in your {towns}, then you shall get up and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose;

She would sit under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled.

She said, “In the past they used to say, ‘Seek counsel in Abel,’ and that’s how they settled disputes.

Jehoshaphat also appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites and priests and some of the heads of the Israelite families for deciding the Lord’s will and for settling disputes of the residents of Jerusalem.

“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty?Let him who disputes with God answer it.”

A toss of a coin ends disputes, and settles the issue between strong opponents.

An offended brother is more unyielding than a fortified city, and his disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

He will settle disputes among the nationsand provide arbitration for many peoples.They will turn their swords into plowsand their spears into pruning knives.Nations will not take up the sword against other nations,and they will never again train for war.

His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He won't judge by what his eyes see, nor decide disputes by what his ears hear,

When disputes arise, they are to serve as a judge, adjudicating matters according to my ordinances. They are to enforce my laws, my statutes, all of my appointed festivals, and they are to sanctify my Sabbaths.

They utter empty words, taking false oaths and making empty agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a plowed field.

"This is why there will not be left even a single person to settle boundary disputes in the LORD's community.

He will settle disputes among many peoplesand provide arbitration for strong nationsthat are far away.They will beat their swords into plows,and their spears into pruning knives.Nation will not take up the sword against nation,and they will never again train for war.

Why are you forcing me to look at iniquity and to stare at wickedness? Social havoc and oppression are all around me; there are legal conflicts, and disputes abound.

They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Now receive the one who is weak in the faith, and do not have disputes over differing opinions.

I say this to your shame! Is there no one among you wise enough to settle disputes between fellow Christians?

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion,

Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith --

he is conceited, understanding nothing, but has a sick interest in disputes and arguments over words. From these come envy, quarreling, slander, evil suspicions,

Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion of the hearers.

But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels.

And the Lord's slave must not engage in heated disputes but be kind toward all, an apt teacher, patient,

But avoid foolish debates, genealogies, quarrels, and disputes about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

Indeed men swear [an oath] by one greater than themselves, and with them [in all disputes] the oath serves as confirmation [of what has been said] and is an end of the dispute.