50 Bible Verses about Resolving Conflict
Most Relevant Verses
Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints?
leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.
The beginning of strife is like letting out water,
So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.
But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every fact may be confirmed.
Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
The cast lot puts an end to strife
And decides between the mighty ones.
And there arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be greatest.
Through insolence comes nothing but strife,
But wisdom is with those who receive counsel.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.
Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?
But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded them, but let the boys live.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints,
Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly.
Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven;
His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men.
In a dispute they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed feasts and sanctify My sabbaths.
So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went embittered in the rage of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.
Someone in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.”
Upon the wicked He will rain snares;
Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.
For all of them were trying to frighten us, thinking, “They will become discouraged with the work and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands.
He will set his face to come with the power of his whole kingdom, bringing with him a proposal of peace which he will put into effect; he will also give him the daughter of women to ruin it. But she will not take a stand for him or be on his side.
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.
“Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”
And they cried out, saying, “What business do we have with each other, Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?”
The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked,
And the one who loves violence His soul hates.
He said, “No; rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the Lord.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to him, “What has my lord to say to his servant?”
Then he will turn his face to the coastlands and capture many. But a commander will put a stop to his scorn against him; moreover, he will repay him for his scorn.
When He entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to Him while He was teaching, and said, “By what authority are You doing these things, and who gave You this authority?”
Now when the Philistines were at war again with Israel, David went down and his servants with him; and as they fought against the Philistines, David became weary.
For, behold, the wicked bend the bow,
They make ready their arrow upon the string
To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
In the Lord I take refuge;
How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain;
After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus *said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
With kings and with counselors of the earth,
Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness;
The upright will behold His face.
and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions.
Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
And when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension and debate with them, the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this issue.
“And now, behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about preaching the kingdom, will no longer see my face.
But when he had considered this, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for the Child who has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
