STRIFE

Passages on this topic · 151

• Genesis 13:6

  The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

• Genesis 13:7

  There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.

• Genesis 13:8

  Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.

• Genesis 21:25

  Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

• Genesis 26:20

  The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

• Genesis 26:21

  They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

• Genesis 26:22

  He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

• Genesis 31:36

  Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

• Genesis 45:24

  So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

• Deuteronomy 1:12

  How can I myself alone bear your problems, your burdens, and your strife?

• Judges 11:2

  Gilead’s wife bore him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You will not inherit in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

• Judges 12:1

  The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”

• Judges 12:2

  Jephthah said to them, “I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.

• Judges 12:3

  When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”

• Judges 12:4

  Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”

• Judges 12:5

  The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. When the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No”;

• Judges 12:6

  then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it right: then they seized him, and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

• 2 Samuel 19:41

  Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”

• 2 Samuel 19:42

  All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? Or has he given us any gift?”

• 2 Samuel 19:43

  The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

• Psalms 31:20

  In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

• Psalms 55:9

  Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

• Psalms 80:6

  You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

• Proverbs 3:20

  By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

• Proverbs 6:12

  A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

• Proverbs 6:13

  who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;

• Proverbs 6:14

  in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

• Proverbs 6:16

  There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

• Proverbs 6:17

  haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

• Proverbs 6:18

  a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

• Proverbs 6:19

  a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

• Proverbs 10:12

  Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

• Proverbs 13:10

  Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

• Proverbs 15:18

  A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

• Proverbs 16:28

  A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

• Proverbs 17:1

  Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

• Proverbs 17:14

  The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

• Proverbs 17:19

  He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

• Proverbs 18:6

  A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

• Proverbs 18:19

  A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

• Proverbs 19:13

  A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

• Proverbs 20:3

  It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

• Proverbs 21:19

  It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

• Proverbs 22:10

  Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

• Proverbs 23:29

  Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

• Proverbs 23:30

  Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

• Proverbs 25:8

  Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

• Proverbs 25:24

  It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

• Proverbs 26:17

  Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

• Proverbs 26:20

  For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

• Proverbs 26:21

  As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

• Proverbs 27:15

  A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

• Proverbs 28:25

  One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

• Proverbs 29:22

  An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

• Proverbs 30:33

  For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

• Isaiah 41:11

  Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

• Isaiah 41:12

  You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing.

• Isaiah 58:4

  Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

• Habakkuk 1:3

  Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

• Matthew 5:25

  Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

• Matthew 5:39

  But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

• Matthew 5:40

  If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.

• Matthew 5:41

  Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

• Matthew 10:34

  “Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

• Matthew 10:35

  For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

• Matthew 10:36

  A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

• Matthew 12:25

  Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

• Matthew 18:15

  “If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

• Matthew 18:16

  But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

• Matthew 18:17

  If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

• Mark 3:24

  If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

• Mark 3:25

  If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

• Mark 9:34

  But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.

• Luke 11:17

  But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.

• Luke 12:51

  Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.

• Luke 12:52

  For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

• Luke 12:53

  They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

• Luke 12:58

  For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

• Luke 12:59

  I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny. ”

• Luke 22:24

  There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.

• John 10:19

  Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words.

• Acts 15:2

  Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

• Acts 15:38

  But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.

• Acts 15:39

  Then the contention grew so sharp that they separated from each other. Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away to Cyprus,

• Acts 23:7

  When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the crowd was divided.

• Acts 23:8

  For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

• Acts 23:9

  A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

• Acts 23:10

  When a great argument arose, the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

• Romans 2:8

  but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

• Romans 12:18

  If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

• Romans 13:13

  Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

• Romans 14:1

  Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

• Romans 14:19

  So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

• Romans 14:21

  It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

• Romans 16:17

  Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

• Romans 16:18

  For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

• 1 Corinthians 1:10

  Now I beg you, brothers, through 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 together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

• 1 Corinthians 1:11

  For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.

• 1 Corinthians 1:12

  Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

• 1 Corinthians 1:13

  Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?

• 1 Corinthians 3:1

  Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 3:3

  for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

• 1 Corinthians 3:4

  For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?

• 1 Corinthians 4:6

  Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

• 1 Corinthians 4:7

  For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

• 1 Corinthians 6:1

  Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

• 1 Corinthians 6:2

  Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

• 1 Corinthians 6:3

  Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

• 1 Corinthians 6:4

  If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?

• 1 Corinthians 6:5

  I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

• 1 Corinthians 6:6

  But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

• 1 Corinthians 6:7

  Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

• 1 Corinthians 11:16

  But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

• 1 Corinthians 11:17

  But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.

• 1 Corinthians 11:18

  For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

• 1 Corinthians 11:19

  For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

• 2 Corinthians 12:20

  For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

• Galatians 5:10

  I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

• Galatians 5:15

  But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

• Galatians 5:19

  Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

• Galatians 5:20

  idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

• Galatians 5:21

  envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

• Philippians 1:15

  Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

• Philippians 1:16

  The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

• Philippians 2:3

  doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

• Philippians 2:14

  Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

• Philippians 2:15

  that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

• 1 Timothy 1:5

  but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

• 1 Timothy 1:6

  from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

• 1 Timothy 1:7

  desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

• 1 Timothy 2:8

  I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

• 1 Timothy 3:2

  The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

• 1 Timothy 3:3

  not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

• 1 Timothy 6:3

  If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

• 1 Timothy 6:4

  he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

• 1 Timothy 6:5

  constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

• 1 Timothy 6:20

  Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge;

• 1 Timothy 6:21

  which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

• 2 Timothy 2:14

  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.

• 2 Timothy 2:23

  But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

• 2 Timothy 2:24

  The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,

• 2 Timothy 2:25

  in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

• Titus 3:1

  Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

• Titus 3:2

  to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

• Titus 3:3

  For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

• Titus 3:9

  but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

• James 3:14

  But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

• James 3:15

  This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

• James 3:16

  For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

• James 4:1

  Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

• James 4:2

  You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.