Resolving Conflicts

`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 →

`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;

`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;

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

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.

`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 →

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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;

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

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

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 →

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

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

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

`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.

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 →

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

`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.

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;

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;

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

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

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

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

`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.

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

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

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

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

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

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;

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 →

`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 →

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together! — read the full passage →

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;

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.

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,

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

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?'

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 →

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 →

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

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

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;

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

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 →

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

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> .

`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 →

An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

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

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

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of life.

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

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

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 →

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.

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

Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

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 →

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

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

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 →

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers--

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 may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance <FI>is<Fi> Mine, — 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,

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him, — read the full passage →

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

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 →

`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 →

`Ye heard that it was said: Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth; — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.