Popular Bible Verses about Strife - Page 3

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Proverbs 17:1

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Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife. NIV

BETTER IS a dry morsel with quietness than a house full of feasting [on offered sacrifices] with strife. AMP

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. KJV

Proverbs 23:29

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Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? NIV

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness and dimness of eyes? AMP

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? KJV

2 Timothy 2:23

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Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. NIV

But refuse (shut your mind against, have nothing to do with) trifling (ill-informed, unedifying, stupid) controversies over ignorant questionings, for you know that they foster strife and breed quarrels. AMP

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. KJV

Genesis 13:8

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So Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives." NIV

So Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I beg of you, between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are relatives. AMP

And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. KJV

Proverbs 18:6

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The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating. NIV

A [self-confident] fool's lips bring contention, and his mouth invites a beating. AMP

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. KJV

Proverbs 13:10

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Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice. NIV

By pride and insolence comes only contention, but with the well-advised is skillful and godly Wisdom. AMP

Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom. KJV

Proverbs 29:22

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An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered person commits many sins. NIV

A man of wrath stirs up strife, and a man given to anger commits and causes much transgression. AMP

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression. KJV

Proverbs 20:3

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It is to one's honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel. NIV

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife and keep aloof from it, but every fool will quarrel. AMP

It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling. KJV

Proverbs 26:20

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Without wood a fire goes out; without a gossip a quarrel dies down. NIV

For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, contention ceases. AMP

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. KJV

Acts 23:10

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The dispute became so violent that the commander was afraid Paul would be torn to pieces by them. He ordered the troops to go down and take him away from them by force and bring him into the barracks. NIV

And when the strife became more and more tense and violent, the commandant, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces by them, ordered the troops to go down and take him forcibly from among them and conduct him back into the barracks. AMP

And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle. KJV