Bible Verses about “quarreling”
The Bible contains 42 verses about quarreling across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.”
“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.”
“If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.”
“Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.”
“So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.”
“It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.”
“One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.”
“Don't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.”
“I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.”
“Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.”
“Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.”
“But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.”
“For it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"”
“For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.”
“for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
“So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.”
“One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.”
“He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.”
“Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.”
“But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.”
“For to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.”
“Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.”
“Then don't let your good be slandered,”
“For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.”
“Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.”
“For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.”
“Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;”
“You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.”
“Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?”
“but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”
“Do all things without murmurings and disputes,”
“The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,”
“knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.”
“It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.”
“A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.”
“But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.”
“It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.”
“A fool's lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.”
“The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.”
“Like one who grabs a dog's ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.”
“As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.”
“Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.”