25 Bible Verses About Arguing (ESV)

15:1   A soft answer turns away wrath,
    but a harsh word stirs up anger.

23 Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. 24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,

19 So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

22   A man of wrath stirs up strife,
    and one given to anger causes much transgression.

3:1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, 2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.

10   By insolence comes nothing but strife,
    but with those who take advice is wisdom.

11   A fool gives full vent to his spirit,
    but a wise man quietly holds it back.

30   Do not contend with a man for no reason,
    when he has done you no harm.

14:1 As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

11   Good sense makes one slow to anger,
    and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

18:1   Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire;
    he breaks out against all sound judgment.
2   A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,
    but only in expressing his opinion.

4   Answer not a fool according to his folly,
    lest you be like him yourself.

14 Do all things without grumbling or disputing, 15 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, 16 holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

14 Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.

17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

14 Do all things without grumbling or disputing,

19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

9   Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
    for he will despise the good sense of your words.

18   A hot-tempered man stirs up strife,
    but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

3   It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,
    but every fool will be quarreling.

16 But avoid irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,

3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?