Bible Verses About Strife

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.

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

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

Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

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

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

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

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

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

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

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

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

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

For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

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

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

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.

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

For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

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

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

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

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?

They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

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

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

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

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

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.

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

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

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

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

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.