Quarreling

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife. — read the full passage →

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. — read the full passage →

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear. — read the full passage →

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment. — read the full passage →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, — read the full passage →

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down. — read the full passage →

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

Do all things without murmurings and disputes, — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: — read the full passage →

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; neither his ear heavy, that it can’t hear: — read the full passage →

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.

God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them; — read the full passage →

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment. — read the full passage →

He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight. — read the full passage →

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. — read the full passage →

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, no one considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil. — read the full passage →

A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another. — read the full passage →

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says. — read the full passage →