Bible verses about "controversy" | WPNT

²² Flee the lusts of youth; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. ²³ Refuse foolish and ignorant arguments, knowing that they breed quarrels. ²⁴ Now a slave of the Lord should not quarrel but be gentle towards all, skillful at teaching, forbearing, ²⁵ correcting courteously those who oppose him, in hopes that God may grant them repentance leading to a real knowledge of Truth ²⁶ and that they may retrieve their senses out of the devil’s snare (having been taken captive by him to do his will).

⁹ But avoid foolish arguments and genealogies and contentions and disputes about the law, because they are unprofitable and useless. ¹⁰ Excommunicate a divisive man after a first and second admonition, ¹¹ knowing that such a person has been perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned.