Scriptures on Contention

Proverbs 26:17

17 Like one who grabs a dog’s ears
    is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

Proverbs 20:3

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

Proverbs 18:19

19 A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city.
    Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

Proverbs 16:28

28 A perverse man stirs up strife.
    A whisperer separates close friends.

Titus 3:9

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Proverbs 28:25

25 One who is greedy stirs up strife;
    but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

2 Timothy 2:23

23 But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

1 Timothy 6:20-21

20 Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge, 21 which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith.

Grace be with you. Amen.

1 Timothy 6:3-5

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, he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions, 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.[a]

Titus 3:10-11

10 Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning, 11 knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.

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