24 Bible Verses about Resolving Conflict
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DARE any of you, having a matter of controversy with another, sue for judgment before the unjust, and not before the saints?
leave there thy gift before the altar, and go: first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
But if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be confirmed.
Be disposed to agree with thy prosecutor speedily, whilst thou art in the way with him [to the bar]; lest the prosecutor deliver thee up to the judge, and the judge commit thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
Now it came to pass, that there was also a contention among them, even which of them should be accounted to be the greatest.
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Then the apostles and presbyters were assembled to consider of this matter.
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
praying at every opportunity with all prayer and supplication in Spirit, and watching for this very purpose with perseverance and intercession for all the saints;
Be clothed in the panoply of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Then Joseph her husband being a just man, and not willing to expose her publicly, designed to put her away privately.
Or what king, going forth to encounter another king in battle, doth not sit down first, and consult if he is able with ten thousand men to meet him who is coming against him with twenty thousand?
Then spake one of the multitude to him, Master, order my brother to divide the inheritance with me.
saying, Where is he that is born king of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the East, and are come to pay him homage.
And lo! they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither before the time to torment us?
And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him, as he was teaching, demanding, By what authority doest thou these things? And who gave thee this authority?
And after the sop, then entered Satan into him. Jesus saith to him, What thou doest, do quickly.
and signalized myself in Judaism above many of those of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly a zealot for the traditions of my fathers.
Stand therefore, girded about your loins with truth, and putting on the breastplate of righteousness;
and over all lifting up the shield of faith, with which ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
There being therefore no small contention and dispute maintained by Paul and Barnabas against them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of their body, should go up to the apostles and presbyters at Jerusalem, for the decision of this question.
And now behold, I know that ye shall see my face no more, even ye all, among whom I have gone in and out preaching the kingdom of God.
And as he was revolving the matter in his mind, behold, an angel of the Lord in a dream appeared unto him, saying, Joseph, son of David, fear not to take Mary for thy wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.