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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Bible Questions Answered: Quarrels

Bible Questions Answered:
“...so we have a battle in the church over church suppers...”
Helen/ Hattiesburg, Mississippi U.S.A.

Bible Answer:
The House of God, is not a place for fighting and bickering!
Our Lord said His house would be a House of Prayer, so gather together on your knees and listen as much as ask.

James talks about small disputes that grow into wars.

James 4:1-3 NLT
1 What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you?
2 You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.
3 And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.

The Word of the Lord:

Job 6:25 KJV
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

Proverbs 13:10 KJV
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

Proverbs 17:14,19 NLT
14 Starting a quarrel is like opening a floodgate, so stop before a dispute breaks out.
19 Anyone who loves to quarrel loves sin; anyone who trusts in high walls invites disaster.

Proverbs 18:6,7 NLT
6 Fools’ words get them into constant quarrels; they are asking for a beating.
7 The mouths of fools are their ruin; they trap themselves with their lips.

Proverbs 20:1 NLT
Avoiding a fight is a mark of honor; only fools insist on quarreling.

Proverbs 26:21 NLT
A quarrelsome person starts fights as easily as hot embers light charcoal or fire lights wood.

Romans 2:7-9 KJV
7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life:
8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

I Corinthians 1:10 NLT
I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind, united in thought and purpose.

I Corinthians 1:19,20 KJV (The father of disputes.)
19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer* of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

*Disputer-Greek-Suzetetes-(Sood-zay-tay-tace): A disputant, i.e. a sophist, a disputer.

Disputer: To argue; debate, to quarrel. To question the truth of; doubt. To oppose in any way; resist. To fight for; contest....
(New World Dictionary

I Corinthians 3:3 NLT
for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world?

Colossians 3:13 KJV
12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering;
13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

II Timothy 2:14,23,24 NLT
14 Remind everyone about these things, and command them in God’s presence to stop fighting over words. Such arguments are useless, and they can ruin those who hear them.
23 Again I say, don’t get involved in foolish, ignorant arguments that only start fights.
24 A servant of the Lord must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone, be able to teach, and be patient with difficult people.

Titus 3:9 NLT
Do not get involved in foolish discussions about spiritual pedigrees or in quarrels and fights about obedience to Jewish laws. These things are useless and a waste of time.

Brethren...
Philippians 2:14,15 NLT
14 Do everything without complaining and arguing,
15 so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.