Bible Verses About Strife

for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;

and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from--for they are unprofitable and vain.

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

for where zeal and rivalry are , there is insurrection and every evil matter;

Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

who being reviled--was not reviling again, suffering--was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,