Bible Verses About Disputes

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

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

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

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

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

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.

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.

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.

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

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

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;

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

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.

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

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

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

But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

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

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

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

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:

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose;

But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.

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

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?

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

Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.

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

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

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

Moreover 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.

The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

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