21 Bible Verses about Confrontation

But when Cephas came to Antioch I resisted him to his face, because he stood self-condemned.

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

But Elymas, "the sorcerer," for that is the translation of his name, opposed them, and tried to divert the proconsul from the faith.

Then the High Priest Ananias ordered those who stood near Paul to strike him on the mouth.

But as they opposed him and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, and said: "Your blood be upon your own hands. I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."

"We strictly forbade you, did we not, to teach about this Name, and here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us." But Peter and the apostles said in reply.

But certain men from the so-called "Synagogue of the Freedmen" and certain Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, Cilicians, and men from Roman Asia, started to dispute with Stephen,

"Be on you guard! "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents forgive him.

"If your brother sins against you, go and show him, between yourself and him alone. If he listens, you have won your brother.

Even if any one should be overtaken in a fault, brothers, you that are spiritual ought, in a gentle spirit, to restore such a one, each one of you looking to himself, lest you too be tempted.

My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings him back, let him know that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his ways, saves his soul from death, and hides a multitude of sins.

After he had gone away, the Scribes and the Pharisee began to set themselves vehemently against him, and to cross-question him upon many points, laying in wait for him, in order to catch a word from his lips.

Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came to him, and in order to test him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might ensnare him during conversation.

But when some scribes of the Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax-gatherers, they said to his disciples, "Is he eating and drinking with tax-gatherers and sinners?"

So the Pharisees and Scribes asked him. "Why do your disciples not follow the traditions of the elders? Why do they eat with 'common' unwashed hands?"

And some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?"

And some of the Pharisees said to them out of the crowd, "Teacher reprove your disciples!"

Then said the Pharisees to him. "You are bearing testimony to yourself; your testimony is not true."

He fell to the ground, and heard a voice which said to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" And he said, "Who are you Lord?"

"So if God gave them the same gift as he gave to us, when we first believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?"