FOOLISH AND STUPID ARGUMENTS
Come campaign time, facebook is set on fire with arguments. The Bible is a good guide for how to approach presenting your views to another person or persons. These are scripture verses but the same principle applies today in other venues.
How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove? Job 6:25
No one calls for justice; no one pleads a case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil. Isaiah 59:4
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. II Corinthians 10:5
I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments. Colossians 2:4
Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. II Timothy 2:23
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. Titus 3:9 (The law being mainly the first 5 books of the Old Testament.)
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. ..James 4:1-3
But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God. Job 13:3
Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value? Job 15:3
An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels. Proverbs 18:1
Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended. Proverbs 22:10
As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife. Proverbs 26:21
Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, ... I Timothy 3:1-2
These are the things you are to teach and insist on. If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain. I Timothy 6:1-5
And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. II Timothy 2:24
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? James 4:1
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