21 Bible Verses about Confrontation

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. The man stood self-condemned.

Said one of the high priest's servants, a kinsman of the man whose ear had been cut off by Peter, "Did I not see you with him in the orchard?"

But the sorcerer Elymas (for that is the translation of his name) tried to divert the proconsul from the faith.

Then the high priest Ananias ordered those who were standing next Paul to strike him on the mouth.

But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, saying, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not responsible! After this I will go to the Gentiles."

"We strictly forbade you to teach about this Name, did we not? And here you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine! You want to make us responsible for this man's death!" Peter and the apostles answered, "One must obey God rather than men.

Some of those who belonged to the so-called synagogue of the Libyans, the Cyrenians, and the Alexandrians, as well as to that of the Cilicians and Asiatics, started a dispute with Stephen,

Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins, check him, and if he repents forgive him.

If your brother sins [against you], go and reprove him, as between you and him alone. If he listens to you, then you have won your brother over;

Even if anyone is detected in some trespass, brothers, you are spiritual, you must set the offender right in a spirit of gentleness; let each of you look to himself, in case he too is tempted.

My brothers, if anyone of you goes astray from the truth and someone brings him back, understand that he who brings a sinner back from the error of his way saves his soul from death and hides a host of sins.

After he had gone away, the scribes and Pharisees commenced to follow him up closely and cross-question him on many points, lying in ambush to catch a word from his lips.

Now the Pharisees and Sadducees came up and, in order to tempt him, asked him to show them a Sign from heaven.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted to trap him in talk.

So when some scribes of the Pharisees saw he was eating with sinners and taxgatherers they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?"

Some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is not allowed on the sabbath?"

Some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Check your disciples, teacher."

So the Pharisees said to him, "You are testifying to yourself; your evidence is not valid."

he dropped to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" "Who are you?" he asked. "I am Jesus," he said, "and you persecute me.

Well then, if God has given them exactly the same gift as he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I ??how could I try to thwart God?"