21 Bible Verses about Confrontation

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, for his own conduct condemned him.

One of the high priest's slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you with him in the garden?"

But Elymas the magician??or that is the meaning of his name??pposed them, and tried to keep the governor from accepting the faith.

At this the high priest Ananias ordered the people who were standing nearest to him to strike him on the mouth.

But as they contradicted and abused him, he shook his clothes in protest, and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not to blame for it! After this I will go to the heathen."

"We strictly forbade you," he said, "to teach on this authority, and here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and propose to hold us responsible for this man's death!" Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.

But members of the synagogue known as that of the Libyans, Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and men from Cilicia and Asia undertook to debate with Stephen,

Look out for yourselves! If your brother wrongs you, take it up with him, and if he repents, forgive him.

"But if your brother wrongs you go to him and show him his fault while you are alone with him. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

But if a man is caught doing something wrong, brothers, you are spiritual, and you must set him right, in a spirit of gentleness. Think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.

My brothers, if any one of you is led astray from the truth, and someone brings him back, you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his misguided way will save the man's soul from death, and cover up a host of sins.

After he left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to watch him closely and to try to draw him out on many subjects, plotting to entrap him in something he might say.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came up and to test him asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Then the Pharisees went and made a plot to entrap him in argument.

And when the scribes who were of the Pharisees' party saw that he was eating with irreligious people and tax-collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax-collectors and irreligious people?"

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not observe the rules handed down by our ancestors, but eat food without purifying their hands?"

And some of the Pharisees said, "Why do you do what it is against the Law to do on the Sabbath?"

Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Master, reprove your disciples!"

The Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying to yourself. Your testimony is not true."

and he fell to the ground. Then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?" "Who are you, sir?" he asked. "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," said the voice.

So if God had given them the same gift that we received when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, to be able to interfere with God?"