Bible Verses About Quarrels, Strife, And Divisions

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

Direct report of divisions in the church

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

Direct warning to avoid foolish disputes

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

Direct warning about dissensions and quarrels

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

Direct sin list with strife and divisions

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

Direct warning that word quarrels ruin hearers

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Core unity verse

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

Direct statement that envying and strife bring confusion

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

Direct warning against bitter envying and strife

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Parallel vice list with rivalries and dissensions

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

General cause of quarrels rooted in passions

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.

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For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

Notes factions in church gatherings

And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.

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He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

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

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

Supports avoiding divisive people

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

Warns against contentiousness in churches

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.

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And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;

Describes a sharp contention that split coworkers

And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

Old Testament background for strife between brethren

But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

Shows envy leading to public uproar

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

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But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

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

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Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.

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

General proverb on wrath and strife

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Shows the same kingdom warning in a related list

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

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These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

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