Bible verses about "quarrelsome" | WNT

¹ Faithful is the saying, "If any one is eager to have the oversight of a Church, he desires a noble work." ² A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching; ³ not a hard drinker nor given to blows; not selfish or quarrelsome or covetous; ⁴ but ruling his own household wisely and well, with children kept under control with true dignity. ⁵ (If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he have the Church of God given into his care?) ⁶ He ought not to be a new convert, for fear he should be blinded with pride and come under the same condemnation as the Devil. ⁷ It is needful also that he bear a good character with people outside the Church, lest he fall into reproach or a snare of the Devil. ⁸ Deacons, in the same way, must be men of serious demeanour, not double-tongued, nor addicted to much wine, nor greedy of base gain, ⁹ but holding the secret truths of the faith with a clear conscience. ¹⁰ And they must also be well-tried men, and when found to be of unblemished character then let them serve as deacons. ¹¹ Deaconesses, in the same way, must be sober-minded women, not slanderers, but in every way temperate and trustworthy. ¹² A deacon must be true to his one wife, and rule his children and his own household wisely and well. ¹³ For those who have filled the deacon's office wisely and well, are already gaining for themselves an honourable standing, and are acquiring great freedom of speech in proclaiming the faith which rests on Christ Jesus. ¹⁴ All this I write to you, though I am hoping before long to come to see you. ¹⁵ But, for fear I may be hindered, I now write, so that you may have rules to guide you in dealing with God's household. For this is what the Church of the ever-living God is, and it is the pillar and foundation-stone of the truth. ¹⁶ And, beyond controversy, great is the mystery of our religion-- that Christ appeared in human form, and His claims justified by the Spirit, was seen by angels and proclaimed among Gentile nations, was believed on in the world, and received up again into glory.

²² Married women, submit to your own husbands as if to the Lord; ²³ because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body. ²⁴ And just as the Church submits to Christ, so also married women should be entirely submissive to their husbands. ²⁵ Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her; ²⁶ in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal water by the word, ²⁷ that He might present the Church to Himself a glorious bride, without spot or wrinkle or any other defect, but to be holy and unblemished. ²⁸ So too married men ought to love their wives as much as they love themselves. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ For never yet has a man hated his own body. On the contrary he feeds and cherishes it, just as Christ feeds and cherishes the Church; ³⁰ because we are, as it were, parts of His Body. ³¹ "FOR THIS REASON A MAN IS TO LEAVE HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER AND BE UNITED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BE AS ONE." ³² That is a great truth hitherto kept secret: I mean the truth concerning Christ and the Church. ³³ Yet I insist that among you also, each man is to love his own wife as much as he loves himself, and let a married woman see to it that she treats her husband with respect.

² A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;

²⁴ and a bondservant of the Lord must not quarrel, but must be inoffensive towards all men, a skilful teacher, and patient under wrongs.

¹ What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?

²⁴ and a bondservant of the Lord must not quarrel, but must be inoffensive towards all men, a skilful teacher, and patient under wrongs. ²⁵ He must speak in a gentle tone when correcting the errors of opponents, in the hope that God will at last give them repentance, for them to come to a full knowledge of the truth ²⁶ and recover sober-mindedness and freedom from the Devil's snare, though they are now entrapped by him to do his will.