Bible verses about "quarreling" | WPNT

¹⁶ He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.

³ Watch out for yourselves: if your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

⁵ is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not ‘short-fused’, is not malicious;

⁷ because the mind-set of the flesh represents enmity against God, since it does not submit to God’s law, nor indeed can it.

¹ My dear children, I am writing these things to you so that you not sin; if someone does sin, we have an Advocate in the Father’s presence, righteous Jesus Christ— ² also, He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; not concerning ours only but also concerning those of the whole world. ³ Now by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. ⁴ He who says, “I have come to know Him”, yet doesn’t keep His commandments, is a liar and the Truth is not in him. ⁵ But whoever keeps His Word, God’s love has truly been perfected in him: by this we know that we are in Him. ⁶ He who claims to be abiding in Him really needs to act just like He acted. ⁷ Brothers, I am not writing a new commandment to you but an old one that you have had from the beginning; this old commandment is the word that you have heard from the beginning. ⁸ Again, I am writing a new commandment to you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining. ⁹ He who claims to be in the Light while hating his brother is in the darkness until now. ¹⁰ He who keeps loving his brother is staying in the Light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. ¹¹ But he who keeps hating his brother is in the darkness and keeps walking in the darkness; he doesn’t know where he’s going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. ¹² Dear children, I am writing to you because your sins have been forgiven for His name’s sake ¹³ —fathers, I am writing to you because you have come to know Him who is from the beginning; young men, I am writing to you because you have overcome the evil one; children, I am writing to you because you have come to know the Father— ¹⁴ fathers, I have written to you because you have come to know Him who is from the beginning; young men, I have written to you because you are strong, and the Word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one. ¹⁵ Do not love the world, neither the things in the world; if anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world—the craving of the flesh and the craving of the eyes and the pretension of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. ¹⁷ The world, with its craving, is passing away, but he who does God’s will remains forever. ¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared, by which we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us but were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us—they left so that they might be exposed, that none of them were of us. ²⁰ You have an Anointing from the Holy One and understand all. ²¹ I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the Truth. ²² Who is the liar but the one denying that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, the one denying the Father and the Son. ²³ Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father either. ²⁴ So you, let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you; if what you have heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Father and in the Son. ²⁵ This is the promise that He Himself promised us—the eternal life. ²⁶ I have written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you; ²⁷ but really, you don’t need anyone to teach you because the Anointing that you received from Him abides in you; further, as the same Anointing teaches you concerning all things, and it is true and no lie—well just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him. ²⁸ And now, dear children, do abide in Him, so that whenever He appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. ²⁹ If you have understood that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been begotten by Him.

¹⁰ As each has received a gift, minister it to one another as good administrators of God’s varied grace.

² You crave and do not have; you murder and covet and are not able to obtain; you fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.

¹⁴ Keep reiterating these things, exhorting them before the Lord not to argue about words to no useful purpose —it just ruins the hearers.

¹⁴ Keep reiterating these things, exhorting them before the Lord not to argue about words to no useful purpose —it just ruins the hearers. ¹⁵ Make every effort to render yourself approved by God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, handling the Word of the Truth correctly. ¹⁶ But shun godless, empty chatter, because those who do it will become increasingly godless, ¹⁷ and their word will spread like gangrene—among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

³³ Stop kidding yourselves: evil associations corrupt good habits.

¹ Where do the wars and disputes among you come from? Is it not precisely from your pleasures, the ones at war in your members?

¹⁷ Therefore, to the one knowing to do good and not doing it, to him it is sin.

¹ Receive someone who is weak in the faith, but not for disputes over arguables. ² One man has faith to eat everything, while the weak one eats only vegetables. ³ One who eats must not look down on one who does not, and one who does not eat must not judge one who does, because God has accepted him. ⁴ Who are you to judge someone else’s household servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And stand he will, for God has the power to make him stand. ⁵ One man esteems one day above another; another esteems everyday alike. Let each one be fully convinced in his own mind. ⁶ He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. And he who eats, eats to the Lord, since he gives thanks to God; while he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, also giving thanks to God. ⁷ You see, none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. ⁸ Because if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. ⁹ For this very reason Christ both died and rose, and lived, so as to rule both dead and living. ¹⁰ But you, why do you judge your brother? And you too, why do you look down on your brother? Because we will all stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ. ¹¹ For it is written: “‘As I live,’ says the LORD, ‘every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall acknowledge God.’” ¹² So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. ¹³ Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another, but rather resolve this: not to put a stumbling block or pitfall in a brother’s way. ¹⁴ I know and have been convinced by the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself (still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean), ¹⁵ but if your brother is offended because of food, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not, with your food, ruin someone for whom Christ died. ¹⁶ So do not let your good be slandered; ¹⁷ because the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. ¹⁸ For whoever serves the Christ in these things is satisfying to God and approved by men. ¹⁹ So then, let us pursue the things that promote peace and the things by which one may edify another. ²⁰ Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are ‘clean’; however it is wrong for the man who gives offence by eating. ²¹ It is good not to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weakened. ²² Do you have faith? Have it privately before God. Happy is he who does not judge himself in what he approves. ²³ But he who eats with doubt stands condemned, because it is not from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin. [ 14:24 ] Now to Him who has power to establish you according to my Gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret through long ages, [ 14:25 ] but now revealed and made known through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the command of the eternal God, with a view to obedience of faith among all ethnic nations [ 14:26 ] —to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ—to Him be the glory forever! Amen.

²³ Refuse foolish and ignorant arguments, knowing that they breed quarrels.

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.