What Does the Bible Say About Being Quarrelsome?

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? ...

Proverbs 25:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Titus 1:5-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

Titus 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you—

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

1 Timothy 3:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? ...

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Mark 4:1-41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: “Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. ...

Proverbs 27:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;

Proverbs 25:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied. It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out. As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable. Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel; take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness. ...

Proverbs 23:29-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who tarry long over wine; those who go to try mixed wine. Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder. Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things. ...

18 Bible Verses about Being Quarrelsome

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 1:5-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 4:1-41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:29-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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18 Bible Verses about Being Quarrelsome

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1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 1:5-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 4:1-41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 23:29-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes