Strife

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Proverbs 25:8 OT

  Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

• Proverbs 25:24 OT

  It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

• Proverbs 26:17 OT

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

• Proverbs 26:20 OT

  For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

• Proverbs 26:21 OT

  As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

• Proverbs 27:15 OT

  A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

• Proverbs 28:25 OT

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

• Proverbs 29:22 OT

  An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

• Proverbs 30:33 OT

  For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

• Isaiah 41:11 OT

  Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

• Isaiah 41:12 OT

  You will seek them, and won’t find them, even those who contend with you. Those who war against you will be as nothing, as a non-existent thing.

• Isaiah 58:4 OT

  Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

• Habakkuk 1:3 OT

  Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.

• Matthew 5:25 NT

  Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

• Matthew 5:39-41 NT

  But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him…

• Matthew 10:34-36 NT

  “Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s…

• Matthew 12:25 NT

  Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

• Matthew 18:15-17 NT

  “If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three…

• Mark 3:24 NT

  If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

• Mark 3:25 NT

  If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

• Luke 11:17 NT

  But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.

• Luke 12:51-53 NT

  Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division. For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. They will be divided, father against son,…

• Luke 12:58 NT

  For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.

• Luke 12:59 NT

  I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny.”