24 Bible Verses about Resolving Conflict
Most Relevant Verses
If one of you has a grievance against an opponent, does he dare to go to law before irreligious men and not before God's people?
leave your gift there before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother first, and then return and proceed to offer your gift.
But if he will not listen to you, go again, and ask one or two to go with you, that every word spoken may be attested by two or three witnesses.
Come to terms without delay with your opponent while you are yet with him on the way to the court; for fear he should obtain judgement from the magistrate against you, and the magistrate should give you in custody to the officer and you be thrown into prison.
There arose also a dispute among them which of them should be regarded as greatest.
If we are living by the Spirit's power, let our conduct also be governed by the Spirit's power.
and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.
Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence and entreaty on behalf of all God's people,
Put on the complete armour of God, so as to be able to stand firm against all the stratagems of the Devil.
But Joseph her husband, being a kind-hearted man and unwilling publicly to disgrace her, had determined to release her privately from the betrothal.
Or what king, marching to encounter another king in war, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand?
Just then a man in the crowd appealed to Him. "Rabbi," he said, "tell my brother to give me a share of the inheritance."
inquiring, "Where is the newly born king of the Jews? For we have seen his Star in the east, and have come here to do him homage."
They cried aloud, "What hast Thou to do with us, Thou Son of God? Hast Thou come here to torment us before the time?"
He entered the Temple; and while He was teaching, the High Priests and the Elders of the people came to Him and asked Him, "By what authority are you doing these things? and who gave you this authority?"
Then, after Judas had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "Lose no time about it," said Jesus to him.
and how in devotion to Judaism I outstripped many men of my own age among my people, being far more zealous than they on behalf of the traditions of my forefathers.
Stand therefore, first fastening round you the girdle of truth and putting on the breastplate of uprightness
And besides all these take the great shield of faith, on which you will be able to quench all the flaming darts of the Wicked one;
Between these new comers and Paul and Barnabas there was no little disagreement and controversy, until at last it was decided that Paul and Barnabas and some other brethren should go up to consult the Apostles and Elders in Jerusalem on this matter.
"And now, I know that none of you among whom I have gone in and out proclaiming the coming of the Kingdom will any longer see my face.
But while he was contemplating this step, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to bring home your wife Mary, for she is with child through the Holy Spirit.
