Bible Verses About Strife

If he refuses to hear them, tell the congregation; and if he refuses to listen even to the congregation, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax-collector.

If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom can't survive;

and if a household is divided against itself, that household can't survive.

He sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village in Shomron to make preparations for him.

However, the people there would not let him stay, because his destination was Yerushalayim.

When the talmidim Ya‘akov and Yochanan saw this, they said, “Sir, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to destroy them?”

But he turned and rebuked them.

And they went on to another village.

But he, knowing what they were thinking, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, with one house collapsing on another.

Do you think that I have come to bring peace in the Land? Not peace, I tell you, but division!

For from now on, a household of five will be divided, three against two, two against three.

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

If someone brings a lawsuit against you, take pains to settle with him first; otherwise he will take the matter to court, and the judge will turn you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you in jail.

I tell you, you won’t get out of there till you have paid the last penny!”

An argument arose among them as to which of them should be considered the greatest.

This brought them into no small measure of discord and dispute with Sha’ul and Bar-Nabba. So the congregation assigned Sha’ul, Bar-Nabba and some of themselves to go and put this sh’eilah before the emissaries and the elders up in Yerushalayim.

There was such sharp disagreement over this that they separated from each other, with Bar-Nabba taking Mark and sailing off to Cyprus.

When he said this, an argument arose between the P’rushim and the Tz’dukim, and the crowd was divided.

But to those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth and obey evil, he will pay back wrath and anger.

If possible, and to the extent that it depends on you, live in peace with all people.

Let us live properly, as people do in the daytime — not partying and getting drunk, not engaging in sexual immorality and other excesses, not quarrelling and being jealous.

Now as for a person whose trust is weak, welcome him — but not to get into arguments over opinions.

So then, let us pursue the things that make for shalom and mutual upbuilding.

What is good is not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put snares alongside the teaching in which you have been trained — keep away from them.