Bible Verses about “strife in the church”
The Bible contains 15 verses about strife in the church across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“"If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.”
“But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.”
“If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.”
“But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.”
“Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.”
“For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.”
“For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.”
“But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.”
“It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.”
“The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.”
“If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,”
“constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.”
“An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.”
“he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,”
“For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;”