Bible Verses About Strife: General references

And Abram saith unto Lot, `Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we are men--brethren.

And he sendeth his brethren away, and they go; and he saith unto them, `Be not angry in the way.'

`How do I bear by myself your pressure, and your burden, and your strife?

Thou hast wrought for those trusting in Thee, Before sons of men. Thou hidest them in the secret place of Thy presence, From artifices of man, Thou concealest them in a tabernacle, From the strife of tongues.

Swallow up, O Lord, divide their tongue, For I saw violence and strife in a city.

Thou makest us a strife to our neighbours, And our enemies mock at it.

Strive not with a man without cause, If he have not done thee evil.

A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking with perverseness of mouth,

Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,

Frowardness is in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven are abominations to His soul.

Eyes high--tongues false--And hands shedding innocent blood--

A heart devising thoughts of vanity--Feet hasting to run to evil--

A false witness who doth breathe out lies--And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled is wisdom.

A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

Better is a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.

The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance is seeking destruction.

The lips of a fool enter into strife, And his mouth for stripes calleth.

A brother transgressed against is as a strong city, And contentions as the bar of a palace.

A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.