Strife In The Church

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;

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

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 →

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

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

“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 →

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies. — read the full passage →

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

But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

“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.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;

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

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

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

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

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

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

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

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

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

I will give to you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven; and whatever you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

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

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

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

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

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

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 speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

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?

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

We love him, because he first loved us.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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 →

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

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service. — read the full passage →

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

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

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,

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed. — read the full passage →

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

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

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 →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts; — read the full passage →

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope; — read the full passage →

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

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 →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?” — read the full passage →

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord. — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,

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

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

“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 →

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

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

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