Top 99 Controversial Bible Verses New Testament

Are you ready to explore some of the most controversial Bible verses in the New Testament? These verses have sparked debate and discussion for centuries, and they continue to be hotly contested today. Here are the top 99 controversial Bible verses from the New Testament:

1. Matthew 5:29-30 – “If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out”
2. Matthew 10:34-36 – “I did not come to bring peace, but a sword”
3. Matthew 19:12 – “Some are born eunuchs, some are made eunuchs by others, and some choose to be eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven”
4. Matthew 23:9 – “Call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven”
5. Matthew 24:36 – “But about that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father”
6. Mark 10:11-12 – “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her”
7. Mark 16:17-18 – “These signs will accompany those who believe: they will cast out demons, they will speak in new tongues, they will pick up snakes in their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them”
8. Luke 6:27-28 – “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you”
9. Luke 14:26 – “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple”
10. Luke 22:36 – “If you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one”
11. John 8:7 – “Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone”
12. John 14:6 – “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”
13. Acts 5:1-11 – The story of Ananias and Sapphira, who were struck dead for lying to the Holy Spirit
14. Acts 17:26 – “From one ancestor he made all nations to inhabit the whole earth”
15. Acts 19:11-12 – “God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that when the handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, their diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them”
16. Romans 1:26-27 – “For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another”
17. Romans 2:11 – “For God shows no partiality”
18. Romans 9:13 – “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated”
19. Romans 13:1-7 – “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities”
20. 1 Corinthians 5:11-13 – “Do not even eat with such a one” (referring to those who are sexually immoral, greedy, idolaters, revilers, drunkards, or robbers)
21. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 – “Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, sodomites, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, robbers – none of these will inherit the kingdom of God”
22. 1 Corinthians 7:1-16 – “It is well for a man not to touch a woman…To the married I give this command – not I but the Lord – that the wife should not separate from her husband…To the rest I say – I and not the Lord – that if any believer has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her”
23. 1 Corinthians 11:3 – “But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the husband is the head of his wife, and God is the head of Christ”
24. 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 – “Women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law also says. If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church”
25. 1 Corinthians 15:29 – “Otherwise, what will those people do who receive baptism on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized on their behalf?”
26. 2 Corinthians 6:14 – “Do not be mismatched with unbelievers”
27. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 – “Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me, but he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.’ So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.”
28. Galatians 1:8-9 – “If anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that one be accursed!”
29. Galatians 3:28 – “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus”
30. Ephesians 5:22-33 – “Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord…Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her”
31. Ephesians 6:5-9 – “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling”
32. Philippians 2:12 – “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling”
33. Colossians 3:22 – “Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything”
34. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 – “For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call and with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever.”
35. 1 Timothy 2:11-12 – “Let a woman learn in silence with full submission. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent”
36. 1 Timothy 6:10 – “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil”
37. 2 Timothy 3:16 – “All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness”
38. Titus 1:12 – “Cretans are always liars, vicious brutes, lazy gluttons”
39. Hebrews 10:26-27 – “For if we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries”
40. James 2:14-26 – “Faith without works is dead”
41. James 4:4 – “Adulterers! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?”
42. 1 Peter 2:18-19 – “Slaves, accept the authority of your masters with all deference, not only those who are kind and gentle but also those who are harsh. For it is a credit to you if, being aware of God, you endure pain while suffering unjustly.”
43. 1 Peter 3:1 – “Wives, in the same way, accept the authority of your husbands”
44. 1 Peter 3:7 – “Husbands, in the same way, show consideration for your wives in your life together, paying honor to the woman as the weaker sex, since they