Quarreling
9 passages
- Titus 3:9–11
9But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless. 10Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition, 11knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.
Read it in context - Proverbs 20:3
It is honorable for a man to resolve a dispute, but any fool will quarrel.
Read it in context - 2 Timothy 2:23
But reject foolish and ignorant speculation, for you know that it breeds quarreling.
Read it in context - James 4:1
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
Read it in context - Proverbs 26:17
Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.
Read it in context - Proverbs 21:19
Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
Read it in context - Proverbs 17:14
To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.
Read it in context - Proverbs 15:18
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
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