Bible Verses About Conflict

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

And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

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

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

And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.

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

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord.

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

For 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.

Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:

And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord’s controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

For 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:

And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,