Resolving Conflict

“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 →

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

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

“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.

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

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

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

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

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

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate 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.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord, — read the full passage →

You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.

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

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

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.

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

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

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”

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

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

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

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.

“‘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.

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.

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

“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;

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

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

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

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

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

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

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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

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;

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

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

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

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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 →

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;

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 →

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.

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 →

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.

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

“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 →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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 →

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.”

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

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

“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 →

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

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 →

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.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

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 →

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? — read the full passage →

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →