16 Bible Verses about Avoid Quarrels
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The beginning of strife is like releasing water: therefore leave off contention, before a quarrel starts.
But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting over questions and disputes of words, out of which comes envy, strife, railings, evil suspicions,
Not given to wine, not violent, not greedy of money; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the ruin of the hearers.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for your people are as they that strive with the priest.
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not talking back;
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men.
Meddle not with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give you their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
And when you come near the border of the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
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