30 Bible Verses about Conflict

FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members?

But foolish and uninstructive disputes avoid, knowing that they produce quarrels.

For the flesh hath appetites contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these act in opposition the one to the other: so that ye do not the things which ye would.

For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions.

FOR I wish you to know how great a struggle I sustain for you, and those at Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

Strain every nerve in the noble conflict of faith, lay fast hold on eternal life, unto which also thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses.

experiencing the same conflict which ye have seen in me, and now hear to be in me.

but I see another law in my members, militating against the law in my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.

DARE any of you, having a matter of controversy with another, sue for judgment before the unjust, and not before the saints?

But remember the past days in which, after ye had been illuminated, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

For there must be heresies among you, that they who are the tried ones, may be made manifest among you.

But if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be confirmed.

For when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted on every side; without were fightings; within were fears.

But if thou shouldst marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned; though such will have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

But though we had suffered before, and were infamously treated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to preach unto you the gospel of God amidst a great conflict.

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go: first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

Then Peter and the apostles answering said, We must obey God rather than men.

O wretched man, I! who shall pluck me from the body of this death?

Think not that I am come to bring peace to the earth: I came not to bring peace, but a sword.

And being in an agony, he prayed with greater intenseness: and his sweat was as clots of blood falling on the ground.

rejoicing in hope; patient in affliction; persevering in prayer:

The father shall take part against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the step-mother against her daughter-in-law, and the son's wife against her mother-in-law.

Be disposed to agree with thy prosecutor speedily, whilst thou art in the way with him [to the bar]; lest the prosecutor deliver thee up to the judge, and the judge commit thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

But if he disregard them, inform the church: and if he disregard the church, let him be to thee as a heathen, or a publican.

perverse wranglings of men corrupt in mind, and destitute of truth, who think to make gain of godliness; depart from such men.

and with intelligence moderation; and with moderation patience; and with patience piety;