Bible Verses About Quarreling

What does the Bible say about quarreling? Often times the root of the problem is pride. The Bible clearly teaches against pride and arrogance. As believers we must do our best to be humble and treat everyone equally with dignity and respect. We must learn to communicate the truth in love. The following Bible verses provide a biblical concept of quarreling. Feel free to use the list for a Bible study or group discussion.

Here's a list of Bible verses about quarrels and quarreling.

2 Timothy 2:14
Keep reminding them of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen.

1 Corinthians 3:3
You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men?

Genesis 13:6-8
But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. And quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time. So Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.

Proverbs 13:10
Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.

James 4:1-3
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

Isaiah 58:4
Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.

2 Corinthians 12:20
For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.

Proverbs 21:9
Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless.

Proverbs 22:10
Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.

Isaiah 45:9
"Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands'?

Proverbs 25:24
Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

1 Timothy 6:3-5
If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.

Proverbs 26:21
As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife

1 Corinthians 1:11
My brothers, some from Chloe's household have informed me that there are quarrels among you.

Proverbs 27:15
A quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping on a rainy day;

1 Timothy 3:3
not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is his father's ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

2 Timothy 2:22-24
Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful

Proverbs 21:19
Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and ill-tempered wife.

Philippians 2:14-16
Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life-in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing.

Feel free to use these verses for a Bible study or short devotional. For more related articles click on the links below.

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Source:
Holy Bible, New International Version
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