68 Bible Verses about Quarrels (KJV)

Here are 68 Bible verses about quarrels, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

James 4:1-2 KJV

¹From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? ²Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

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2 Timothy 2:23-24 KJV

²³But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. ²⁴And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

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Proverbs 17:14 KJV

¹⁴The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

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Proverbs 20:3 KJV

³It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

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Proverbs 15:18 KJV

¹⁸A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

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Titus 3:9 KJV

⁹But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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Philippians 2:14 KJV

¹⁴Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

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Matthew 5:9 KJV

⁹Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

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1 Corinthians 1:10-11 KJV

¹⁰Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. ¹¹For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

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Romans 13:13 KJV

¹³Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

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Ephesians 4:31-32 KJV

³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: ³²And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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Galatians 5:19-21 KJV

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of …

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Proverbs 18:6 KJV

⁶A fool’s lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

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Proverbs 26:21 KJV

²¹As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

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Romans 12:18 KJV

¹⁸If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

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Matthew 18:15-17 KJV

¹⁵Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. ¹⁶But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. ¹⁷And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear …

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Proverbs 26:17 KJV

¹⁷He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.

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1 Peter 3:11 KJV

¹¹Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

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Galatians 5:19-20 KJV

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1 Corinthians 1:10 KJV

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Proverbs 18:19 KJV

¹⁹A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

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Ephesians 4:31 KJV

³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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Romans 14:1 KJV

¹Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

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Proverbs 26:20 KJV

²⁰Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

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James 3:16 KJV

¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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1 Timothy 6:3-5 KJV

³If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; ⁴He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, ⁵Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is …

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Ephesians 4:32 KJV

³²And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

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James 4:1 KJV

¹From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

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Proverbs 15:1 KJV

¹A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

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1 Peter 3:9 KJV

⁹Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

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James 1:19-20 KJV

¹⁹Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: ²⁰For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

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1 Timothy 6:4-5 KJV

⁴He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, ⁵Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

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Philippians 2:14-16 KJV

¹⁴Do all things without murmurings and disputings: ¹⁵That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; ¹⁶Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

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Ephesians 4:29 KJV

²⁹Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

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1 Corinthians 1:11 KJV

¹¹For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

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1 Corinthians 1:10-13 KJV

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Romans 14:19 KJV

¹⁹Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

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Proverbs 29:22 KJV

²²An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

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Proverbs 26:20-21 KJV

²⁰Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. ²¹As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

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2 Corinthians 12:20 KJV

²⁰For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

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1 Peter 3:8-11 KJV

⁸Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: ⁹Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. ¹⁰For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: …

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1 Peter 3:7 KJV

⁷Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

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Ephesians 4:2-3 KJV

²With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; ³Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

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Galatians 5:15 KJV

¹⁵But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

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1 Corinthians 3:3 KJV

³For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

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Romans 12:17-21 KJV

¹⁷Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. ¹⁸If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. ¹⁹Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. ²⁰Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, …

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Matthew 18:15 KJV

¹⁵Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

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Proverbs 22:10 KJV

¹⁰Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

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Proverbs 16:28 KJV

²⁸A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

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1 Corinthians 13:1-13 KJV

¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ²And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. ³And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body …

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Philippians 4:2 KJV

²I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

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1 Peter 3:8-9 KJV

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James 3:14-16 KJV

¹⁴But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. ¹⁵This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. ¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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2 Timothy 2:23 KJV

²³But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

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1 Timothy 6:4 KJV

⁴He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

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1 Timothy 2:8 KJV

⁸I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

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Philippians 2:3-4 KJV

³Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. ⁴Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

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Philippians 2:3 KJV

³Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

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Galatians 5:26 KJV

²⁶Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

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Romans 12:17-19 KJV

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Romans 12:17-18 KJV

¹⁷Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. ¹⁸If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

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John 8:1-59 KJV

¹Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. ²And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. ³And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, ⁴They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. …

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Luke 12:58 KJV

⁵⁸When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

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Proverbs 28:25 KJV

²⁵He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.

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Proverbs 6:19 KJV

¹⁹A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

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Genesis 13:7-9 KJV

⁷And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. ⁸And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. ⁹Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the …

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Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 KJV

¹³Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. ¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

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