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. |
