1 Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his scruples.
Bible verses about "arguments" | Moffatt
Romans 14:1
Romans 12:1
1 Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.
Philippians 2:14-16
14 In all that you do, avoid grumbling and disputing,
15 so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;
16 hold fast the word of life, so that I can be proud of you on the Day of Christ, because I have not run or worked for nothing.
Titus 3:1-11
1 Remind them to be submissive to their rulers and authorities; they must obey, they must be ready for any good work,
2 they must abuse no one, they must not quarrel, but be conciliatory and display perfect gentleness to all men.
3 For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.
4 But "the goodness and affection of God our Saviour appeared;
5 and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit
6 which he poured upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour,
7 that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."
8 It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men.
9 But avoid foolish controversy, and let genealogies and dissensions and strife over the Law alone, for these are fruitless and futile.
10 After a first and a second warning have no more to do with a factious person;
11 you may be sure a man like that is perverted; he is sinning and he knows it.
Matthew 7:3
3 Why do you note the splinter in your brother's eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye?
James 1:19
19 Be sure of that, my beloved brothers. Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to talk, slow to be angry —
Titus 3:9
9 But avoid foolish controversy, and let genealogies and dissensions and strife over the Law alone, for these are fruitless and futile.
1 Timothy 6:4
4 is a conceited, ignorant creature, with a morbid passion for controversy and argument which only leads to envy, dissension, insults, insinuations,
Romans 12:2
2 Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.
2 Corinthians 10:5
5 I demolish theories and any rampart thrown up to resist the knowledge of God, I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ,
2 Timothy 2:16
16 Avoid all that profane jargon, for it leads people still further into irreligion,
James 4:1-3
1 Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?
2 You crave, and miss what you want: you envy and covet, but you cannot acquire: you wrangle and fight — you miss what you want because you do not ask God for it;
3 you do ask and you do not get it, because you ask with the wicked intention of spending it on your pleasures.
2 Timothy 2:14
14 Remind men of this: adjure them before the Lord not to bandy arguments — no good comes out of that, it only means the undoing of your audience.
2 Timothy 2:23-25
23 Shut your mind against foolish, popular controversy; be sure that only breeds strife.
24 And the Lord's servant must not be a man of strife; he must be kind to everybody, a skilled teacher, a man who will not resent injuries;
25 he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition — God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth;