Bible verses about "arguing" | Wesley

¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits,

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, fidelity, ²³ Meekness, temperance; against such there is no law.

²¹ For even hereunto are ye called; for Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye might follow his steps:

¹⁹ Let us therefore pursue the things that tend to peace, and to mutual edification.

¹ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. ² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. ³ And though I give all my goods to feed the poor, and deliver up my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. ⁴ Love suffereth long and is kind; love envieth not; love acteth not rashly, is not puffed up: ⁵ Doth not behave indecently, seeketh not her own, is not provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not at iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth: ⁶ Covereth all things, ⁷ believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. ⁸ Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. ⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. ¹⁰ And when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall vanish away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. ¹² And now we see by means of a glass obscurely; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know even as also I am known. ¹³ And now abide these three, faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.

¹⁹ Dearly beloved, revenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

¹ Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work: ² To speak evil of no man, not to be quarrelsome, to be gentle, shewing all meekness toward all men.

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

²⁴ And a servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle toward all men,

²³ But avoid foolish and unlearned questions, knowing that they beget strife: ²⁴ And a servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle toward all men,