50 Bible Verses about Resolving Conflict

[It is] honorable for the man to refrain from strife, but every fool will be quick to quarrel.

Does anyone among you, [if he] has a matter against someone else, dare to go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

leave your gift there before the altar and first go be reconciled to your brother, and then come [and] present your gift.

[Like] the release of water [is] the beginning of strife; before it breaks out, stop the quarrel.

But if he does not listen, take with you in addition one or two [others], so that by {the testimony} of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.

{Settle the case quickly with your accuser} while you are with him on the way, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

The lot will put an end to disputes, and between powerful contenders it will decide.

And a dispute also occurred among them as to which of them was recognized as being greatest.

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger,

Only by insolence is strife set up, and wisdom [is] with those who take advice.

If we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit.

Then Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there not be quarreling between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds, for we men [are] brothers.

Both the apostles and the elders assembled to deliberate concerning this matter.

To whom [is] woe? To whom [is] sorrow? To whom [are] quarrels? To whom [is] complaint? To whom [are] wounds without cause? To whom [is] redness of [the] eyes?

When the foundations are destroyed what can [the] righteous do?

But the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt had said to them. They let the boys live.

and receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,

with all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and to this [end] being alert with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil,

So Joseph her husband, being righteous and not wanting to disgrace her, intended to divorce her secretly.

Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first [and] deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand.

Yahweh [is] in his holy temple; Yahweh [is] in the heavens [on] his throne. His eyelids see; they test [the] children of humankind.

And at a legal dispute they themselves shall stand to judge; employing my judgments they shall judge it, and [with respect to] my laws and my statutes. All my festivals they shall keep and my Sabbaths they shall consecrate.

And [the] Spirit lifted me and took me, and I went [in] bitterness in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Yahweh [was] strong on me.

Now someone from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me!"

Argue your argument with your neighbor [himself], the secret of another do not disclose,

He will rain coals on [the] wicked. Burning sulfur and scorching wind [will be] the portion of their cup.

For you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried.

for all of them [sought] to frighten us, saying, "their hands will not do the work." And now, [God], strengthen my hands.

And he will set his face to come with the authority of his whole kingdom and will form an agreement; and he will {act}, and the daughter of women he will give to him to destroy it, but [the ploy] will not succeed {and she will not support him}.

And there was a quarrel between the herdsmen of the livestock of Abram and the herdsmen of the livestock of Lot. Now at that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.

saying, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star at its rising and have come to worship him."

And behold, they cried out, saying, "{What do you have to do with us}, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"

Yahweh tests [the] righteous, but [the] wicked and [the] lover of violence his soul hates.

And he said, "Neither. I have come now [as] the commander of Yahweh's army." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and {he bowed down} and said to him, "What [is] my lord commanding his servant?"

And he will turn his face to [the] coastlands, and he will capture many, but a commander will end his insults to him {so that instead his insults will turn back upon him}.

And [after] he arrived at the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him [while he] was teaching, saying, "By what authority are you doing these [things]? And who gave you this authority?"

There [was] war again for [the] Philistines with Israel, and David and his servants with him went down, and they fought [the] Philistines, and David grew weary.

For look: The wicked {string the bow}. They have fitted their arrow to [the] string, to shoot from [the] darkness at the upright of heart.

In Yahweh I have taken refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee to your mountain [like] a bird"?

And after the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you are doing, do quickly!"

with kings and counselors of [the] earth, who {rebuild} ruins for themselves,

For Yahweh [is] righteous; he loves righteous deeds. [The] upright shall see his face.

Look, [though] he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways {before him}.

and was progressing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my nation, [because] I was a far more zealous adherent of the traditions handed down by my forefathers.

Stand therefore, girding your waist with truth, and putting on the breastplate of righteousness,

in everything taking up the shield of faith, with which you are able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one,

And [after] there was no little strife and debate by Paul and Barnabas against them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this issue.

"And now behold, I know that all [of] you, among whom I went about proclaiming the kingdom, will see my face no more.

But [as] he was considering these things, 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 what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.