What Does the Bible Say About Strife And Contension?

Proverbs 17:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The beginning of strife is like letting out water, so quit before the quarrel breaks out.

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

James 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

James 3:14-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

1 Timothy 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,

Acts 15:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And there arose a sharp disagreement, so that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus,

Luke 22:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.

Isaiah 5:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. ...

Proverbs 22:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.

Proverbs 18:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A fool's lips walk into a fight, and his mouth invites a beating.

Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...

James 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

Titus 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

1 Corinthians 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.

John 8:44-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, ...

Habakkuk 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

Jeremiah 15:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Isaiah 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it. When the house of David was told, “Syria is in league with Ephraim,” the heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind. And the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field. And say to him, ‘Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah. Because Syria, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, ...

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Proverbs 30:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.

Proverbs 26:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.

Proverbs 25:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not hastily bring into court, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbor puts you to shame?

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

2 Timothy 2:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,

27 Bible Verses about Strife And Contension

Proverbs 17:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 3:14-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 15:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 22:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 5:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:44-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Habakkuk 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 15:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 26:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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27 Bible Verses about Strife And Contension

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Proverbs 17:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

James 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 3:14-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 15:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 22:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 5:1-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 12:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 8:44-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Habakkuk 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 15:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 26:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote