21 Bible Verses about Confrontation

Now when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

One of the high priest's slaves, who was a kinsman of the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the garden with Him?"

But Elymas the magician -- for this is the meaning of his name -- continued to oppose them by trying to keep the governor from accepting the faith.

At this the high priest Ananias ordered the people standing near him to strike him on the mouth.

But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them, "Your blood be upon your own heads! I am not to blame for it myself. Hereafter I am going to the heathen."

"Did we not positively forbid you to teach anymore on this authority, and yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and now want to bring on us the people's vengeance 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, got to debating with Stephen,

"Be always looking out for another. If your brother ever sins, reprove him, and if he repents, forgive him.

"Again, if your brother wrongs you, go and while alone with him show him the wrong. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.

Brothers, if anybody is caught in the very act of doing wrong, you who are spiritual, in the spirit of gentleness, must set him right; each of you continuing to think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.

My brothers, if any one of you has wandered away from the truth, and someone brings him back, you may be sure that whoever brings a sinner back from his evil ways will save the man's soul from death, and cover up a multitude of sins.

After He left the house, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be violently enraged against Him and to try to draw Him out on many subjects, plotting, as if in ambush, to entrap Him in something that might fall from His lips.

The Pharisees and the Sadducees came up, and to test Him asked Him to show them a spectacular sign from heaven.

Then the Pharisees went and made a plot to trap Him in argument.

And when the scribes who belonged to the Pharisees' party saw that He was eating with notorious sinners and tax-collectors, they said to His disciples, "Why does He eat with tax-collectors and notorious sinners?"

And so the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why is it that your disciples do not practice the customs handed down from our forefathers, but eat their meals without purifying their hands?"

And some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath?"

Then some Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, reprove your disciples."

The Pharisees then said to Him, "You are testifying to yourself; your testimony is not true."

He dropped to the ground; then he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" He asked, "Who are you, sir?" And He said, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

So if God had given them the same gift that He gave us when we believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to try -- and how could I if I tried -- to thwart God?"