24 Bible Verses about Resolving Conflict
Most Relevant Verses
When any of you has a grievance against his neighbour, do you dare to go to law in a sinful pagan court, instead of laying the case before the saints?
leave your gift at the very altar and go away; first be reconciled to your brother, then come back and offer your gift.
but if he will not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that every case may be decided on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.
Be quick and make terms with your opponent, so long as you and he are on the way to court, in case he hands you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and you are thrown into prison;
A quarrel also rose among them as to which of them could be considered the greatest.
As we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit;
put on salvation as your helmet, and take the Spirit as your sword (that is, the word of God),
praying at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty ??be alive to that, attend to it unceasingly, interceding on behalf of all the saints
put on God's armour so as to be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.
As Joseph her husband was a just man but unwilling to disgrace her, he resolved to divorce her secretly;
Or what king sets out to fight against another king without first sitting down to deliberate whether with ten thousand men he can encounter the king who is attacking him with twenty thousand?
A man out of the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to give me my share of our inheritance";
asking, "Where is the newly-born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose, and we have come to worship him."
They shrieked, "Son of God, what business have you with us? Have you come here to torture us before it is time?"
When he entered the temple, the high priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, "What authority have you for acting in this way? Who gave you this authority?"
and when he took the bread, at that moment Satan entered him. Then Jesus told him, "Be quick with what you have to do."
and how I outstripped many of my own age and race in my special ardour for the ancestral traditions of my house.
Hold your ground, tighten the belt of truth about your loins, wear integrity as your coat of mail,
above all, take faith as your shield, to enable you to quench all the fire-tipped darts flung by the evil one,
As a sharp dispute and controversy sprang up between them and Paul and Barnabas, it was arranged that Paul and Barnabas, along with some others of their number, should go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and presbyters at Jerusalem about this question.
I know to-day that not one of you will ever see my face again ??not one of you among whom I moved as I preached the Reign.
but after he had planned this, there appeared an angel of the Lord to him in a dream saying, "Joseph, son of David, fear not to take Mary your wife home, for what is begotten in her comes from the holy Spirit.