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Proverbs 17:14
The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

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Proverbs 20:3
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Proverbs 25:8
Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Proverbs 25:9
Debate your case with your neighbor, and don’t betray the confidence of another,

Proverbs 13:10
Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

Proverbs 3:30
Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

Proverbs 18:6
A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.

Proverbs 26:17
Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 26:21
As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

Proverbs 30:33
For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood, so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”

Romans 12:18
If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

1 Thessalonians 4:11
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,

2 Timothy 2:14
Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord that they don’t argue about words to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

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Proverbs 18:1
A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

2 Timothy 2:24
The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

Proverbs 12:16
A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 16:28
A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Proverbs 25:10
lest one who hears it put you to shame, and your bad reputation never depart.

Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

Acts 6:1
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

Hebrews 12:14
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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Proverbs 20:18
Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

Luke 14:31
Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Luke 14:32
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.

2 Samuel 2:26
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”

2 Samuel 2:27
Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”

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2 Samuel 2:14
Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and compete before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”

2 Samuel 2:15
Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants.

2 Samuel 2:16
They each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.

2 Samuel 2:17
The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.

2 Kings 14:8
Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let’s look one another in the face.”

2 Kings 14:9
Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife.’ Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

2 Kings 14:10
You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?”

2 Kings 14:11
But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

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James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

James 3:15
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

James 3:16
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

James 3:18
Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

2 Corinthians 12:20
For I am afraid that perhaps when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that perhaps there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

Galatians 5:20
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

Philippians 2:3
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

James 4:1
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

James 4:2
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

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Proverbs 19:11
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Ecclesiastes 7:8
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Ecclesiastes 7:9
Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Proverbs 14:29
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

Proverbs 16:32
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Proverbs 19:19
A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

Matthew 5:22
But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

Ephesians 4:26
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Ephesians 4:32
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Colossians 3:8
but now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

James 1:19
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

James 1:20
for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

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Proverbs 18:19
A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

Proverbs 17:27
He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

Proverbs 21:23
Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Proverbs 29:8
Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it,

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Judges 12:6
then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’ ” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

1 Kings 12:14
and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

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2 Samuel 19:41
Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, “Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?”

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2 Samuel 20:2
So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

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Proverbs 10:23
It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.

Proverbs 26:18
Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,

Proverbs 26:19
is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”

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