Resolving Conflict

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice, — read the full passage →

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;

`Happy the peacemakers--because they shall be called Sons of God.

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go--first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.

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

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord, — read the full passage →

Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

The beginning of contention <FI>is<Fi> a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ; — read the full passage →

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.'

`If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee, — read the full passage →

A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

Whoso is keeping his mouth and his tongue, Is keeping from adversities his soul.

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. — read the full passage →

Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

`Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →

I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;

Jehovah doth fight for you, and ye keep silent.'

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

`And if he may not hear them, say <FI>it<Fi> to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

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

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

`If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee,

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

your word always in grace--with salt being seasoned--to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory <FI>is<Fi> to pass over transgression.

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh <FI>is<Fi> enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice;

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.

A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled <FI>is<Fi> wisdom.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: -- — read the full passage →

looking diligently over lest any one be failing of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up may give trouble, and through this many may be defiled;

`Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast, — read the full passage →

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand. — read the full passage →

ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves-- — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

`And forgive us our debts, as also we forgive our debtors.

rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

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

`Happy the kind--because they shall find kindness.

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

In the multiplying of the righteous the people rejoice, And in the ruling of the wicked the people sigh.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Then Peter having come near to him, said, `Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him--till seven times?' — read the full passage →

Euodia I exhort, and Syntyche I exhort, to be of the same mind in the Lord; — read the full passage →

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

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

And Jesus having earnestly beheld, said to them, `With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! -- — read the full passage →

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love? — read the full passage →

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →