Bible Verses about “quarrelsome”
The Bible contains 21 verses about quarrelsome across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.”
“Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;”
“Ye 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.”
“¶ From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?”
“¶ But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”
“¶ Do all things without murmurings and disputings:”
“And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all [men], apt to teach, patient,”
“¶ [It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.”
“¶ A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but [he that is] slow to anger appeaseth strife.”
“But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.”
“In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;”
“And [that] they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.”
“¶ [It is] an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.”
“¶ A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.”
“¶ The beginning of strife [is as] when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.”
“¶ A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.”
“¶ [It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.”
“¶ He that passeth by, [and] meddleth with strife [belonging] not to him, [is like] one that taketh a dog by the ears.”
“¶ Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.”
“¶ An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.”
“[As] coals [are] to burning coals, and wood to fire; so [is] a contentious man to kindle strife.”