Bible Verses about 'Strife'
| Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs. | Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. |
| A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends. | A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. |
| It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling. | It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. |
| A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings. | A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. |
| Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice. | Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom. |
| Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom. | Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 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. |
| For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. | For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. |
| Doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself. | Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. |
Bible verse of the day
Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,“Behold, the virgin shall be with child,
and shall give birth to a son.
They shall call his name Immanuel,”
which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”