Chapter 14 Scriptures
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1 Kings 18.21
Then Elijah approached all the people and said: “How long will you be limping upon two different opinions? If Jehovah is the true God, go following him; but if Baal is, go following him.” And the people did not say a word in answer to him.

Psalm 138:6
For Jehovah is high, and yet the humble one he sees,
but the lofty one he knows only from a distance.

2 Timothy 2:14, 15, 23-25
Keep reminding them [leaders in the Christian congregation] of these things, charging them before God as witness, not to fight about words, a thing of no usefulness at all because it overturns those listening. Do your utmost to present yourself approved to God, a workman with nothing to be ashamed of, handling the word of the truth aright. . . . Turn down foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing they produce fights. A slave of the Lord does not need to fight, but needs to be gentle toward all, qualified to teach, keeping himself restrained under evil, instructing with mildness those not favorably disposed; as perhaps God may give them repentance leading to an accurate knowledge of truth.

1 Peter 3:15
Sanctify the Christ as Lord in your hearts, always ready to make a defense before everyone that demands of you a reason for the hope in you, but doing so together with a mild temper and deep respect.

Using verse 23 as a sample: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you give the tenth of the mint and the dill and the cumin [small spice seeds], but you have let go of the weightier matters of the Law, namely, justice and mercy and faithfulness. These things are required, but not to leave off the other things. Blind guides, who strain out the gnat but gulp down the camel!”
Much more in the rest of the chapter.

Matt 12.18, 19.
Look! My servant whom I chose, my beloved, whom my soul approved! I will put my spirit upon him, and what justice is he will make clear to the nations. He will not wrangle, nor cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the broad ways. [that is, his voice raised in anger]

Ephesians 4.11-16.
He [Christ] gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelizers, some as shepherds and teachers, with a view to the readjustment of the holy ones, for ministerial work, for the building up of the body of the Christ, until we all attain to the oneness in the faith and in the accurate knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of stature that belongs to the fullness of the Christ; in order that we should no longer be babes, tossed about as by waves and carried back and forth by every wind of teaching, by means of the trickery of men, by means of cunning in contriving error. But speaking the truth, let us by love grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ. From him all the body, by being harmoniously joined together and being made to cooperate through every joint that gives what is needed, according to the functioning of each respective member in due measure, makes for the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.