Bible Verses About Conflicts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

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:

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

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.

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

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

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;

And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the Lord, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.

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

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.

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.

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

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

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.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

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?

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