What is conflict?
Disagreement
Disruption
Hurt
Destruction
Strife
Misery
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Dictionary;
competitive
or opposing action of incompatibles.
antagonistic
state or action (as of divergent ideas, interests, or persons) a conflict
of principles.
mental
struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or
external or internal demands His conscience was in conflict
with his duty.
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Conflict
is bad, it causes many issues.
Conflict
is why there are so many different versions of the Bible and so many different
versions of commentaries.
The
underlining source of conflict is “leaning on our own understanding” which the
enemy wants us to do.
Hatred stirs up conflict.
Romans 7;14-25
The
Conflict of Two Natures
14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of
flesh, sold into bondage to sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not
understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do,
but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do
not want to
do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So
now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I
know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is
present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For the good that I
want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But
if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it,
but sin which dwells in me.
21 I find then the principle that evil is present in
me, the one who wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of
God in the inner man, 23 but I see a different law in the members of my
body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law
of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will set me
free from the body of this death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ
our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of
God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
Proverbs 15;1
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up
anger.
Proverbs 6;12-14
12 A
troublemaker and a villain,
who
goes about with a corrupt mouth,
13
who
winks maliciously with his eye,
signals
with his feet
and
motions with his fingers,
14
who
plots evil with deceit in his heart—
he
always stirs up conflict.
Proverbs
6;16-19
16
There are six things the Lord hates,
seven
that are detestable to him:
17
haughty
eyes,
a
lying tongue,
hands
that shed innocent blood,
18
a
heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet
that are quick to rush into evil,
19
a
false witness who pours out lies
and
a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
Proverbs 10;12
Hatred
stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.
Proverbs 15;18
A
hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient
calms a quarrel.
Proverbs 16;28
A
perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close
friends.
Proverbs 28;25
The
greedy stir up conflict, but those who trust in the Lord will
prosper.
Proverbs
29;22
An
angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered person commits
many sins.
Habakkuk
1;2-4
2
How
long, Lord, must I call for help,
but
you do not listen?
Or
cry out to you, “Violence!”
but
you do not save?
3
Why
do you make me look at injustice?
Why
do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Destruction
and violence are before me;
there
is strife, and conflict abounds.
4
Therefore
the law is paralyzed,
and
justice never prevails.
The
wicked hem in the righteous,
so
that justice is perverted.
2
Corinthians 7;5
For
when we came into Macedonia, we had no rest, but we were harassed at every
turn—conflicts on the outside, fears within.
Galatians
5;17
For
the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is
contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so
that you are not to do whatever you want.
Hebrews
10;32
Remember
those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a
great conflict full of suffering.
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