What causes quarrels? - Quarreling - TouchPoints

James 4:1-3What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? 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. And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.

Galatians 5:19-20When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure, idolatry, participation in demonic activities, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those in your own little group,

Sinful desires

Proverbs 13:10Pride leads to arguments; those who take advice are wise.

Proverbs 28:25Greed causes fighting; trusting the Lord leads to prosperity.

Proverbs 30:33As the beating of cream yields butter, and a blow to the nose causes bleeding, so anger causes quarrels.

James 3:16For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and every kind of evil.

Pride, greed, anger, jealousy and selfish ambition

Proverbs 6:12-14What are worthless and wicked people like? They are constant liars, signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye, a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers. Their perverted hearts plot evil, and they constantly stir up trouble.

Here is a description of worthless and wicked people: They are constant liars, signaling their true intentions to their friends by making signs with their eyes and feet and fingers. Their perverted hearts plot evil. They stir up trouble constantly.

Proverbs 17:19Sinful people

1 Timothy 1:4Don’t let people waste time in endless speculation over myths and spiritual pedigrees. For these things only cause arguments; they don’t help people live a life of faith in God.

2 Timothy 2:14Remind everyone of these things, and command them in God’s name to stop fighting over words. Such arguments are useless, and they can ruin those who hear them.

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

Unprofitable discussions