Conflict Resolution

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. — read the full passage →

If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

The king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.” — read the full passage →

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

Don’t receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat. If he is thirsty, give him water to drink: — read the full passage →

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. — read the full passage →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. — read the full passage →

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.” — read the full passage →

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord. — read the full passage →

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits. — read the full passage →

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word, — read the full passage →

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. — read the full passage →

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.