Bible Verses About Strife

Moreover, quarreling arose between Avram's and Lot's herdsmen. The Kena'ani and the P'rizi were then living in the land.

Avram said to Lot, "Please, let's not have quarreling between me and you, or between my herdsmen and yours, since we're kinsmen.

But the herdsmen of G'rar quarreled with Yitz'chak's herdsmen, claiming, "That water is ours!" So he called the well 'Esek [quarrel], because they quarreled with him.

Then Ya'akov became angry and started arguing with Lavan. "What have I done wrong?" he demanded. "What is my offense, that you have come after me in hot pursuit?

Thus he sent his brothers on their way, and they left; he said to them, "Don't quarrel among yourselves while you're traveling!"

The next day, he went out and saw two Hebrew men fighting with each other. To the one in the wrong he said, "Why are you hitting your companion?"

"If two people fight, and one hits the other with a stone or with his fist, and the injured party doesn't die but is confined to his bed;

"If people are fighting with each other and happen to hurt a pregnant woman so badly that her unborn child dies, then, even if no other harm follows, he must be fined. He must pay the amount set by the woman's husband and confirmed by judges.

There was a man who was the son of a woman of Isra'el and an Egyptian father. He went out among the people of Isra'el, and this son of a woman of Isra'el had a fight in the camp with a man of Isra'el,

in the course of which the son of the woman of Isra'el uttered the Name [Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh] in a curse. So they brought him to Moshe. (His mother's name was Shlomit the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

But you are burdensome, bothersome and quarrelsome! How can I bear it by myself alone?

Now all the men of Isra'el came to the king and said to him, "Why have our kinsmen, the men of Y'hudah, stolen you away and brought the king and his household across the Yarden, and all David's men with him?"

All the men of Y'hudah answered the men of Isra'el, "Because the king is our close relative. Why are you angry about this? Have we eaten anything at the king's expense? Has any gift been given to us?"

The men of Isra'el answered the men of Y'hudah, "We have ten shares in the king; also we have more right in David than you. So why did you despise us? Weren't we the first to suggest bringing our king back?" But the men of Y'hudah spoke more vehemently than the men of Isra'el.

"You also freed me from the quarrels of my people. You kept me to be the head of the nations; a people I did not know now serve me.

"You also freed me from the quarrels of my people. You made me head of the nations; a people I did not know now serve me

In the shelter of your presence you hide them from human plots, you conceal them in your shelter, safe from contentious tongues.

By David: ADONAI, oppose those who oppose me; fight against those who fight against me.

Confuse, Adonai, confound their speech! For I see violence and fighting in the city.

You make our neighbors fight over us, and our enemies mock us.

Don't quarrel with someone for no reason, if he has done you no harm.

A scoundrel, a vicious man, lives by crooked speech,

winking his eyes, shuffling his feet, pointing with his fingers.

With deceit in his heart, he is always plotting evil and sowing discord.

There are six things ADONAI hates, seven which he detests: