Bible Verses About Strife

idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;

the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

All things do without murmurings and reasonings,

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world,

And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,

from which certain, having swerved, did turn aside to vain discourse,

willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words--those of our Lord Jesus Christ--and to the teaching according to piety,

he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge,

which certain professing--concerning the faith did swerve; the grace is with you. Amen.

These things remind them of, testifying fully before the Lord--not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

in meekness instructing those opposing--if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome--gentle, showing all meekness to all men,