50 Bible Verses about Resolving Conflict
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It is an honor for a man to cease from discord. Only fools start quarrels.
If you have a dispute with another [Christian] do you dare to go to a law court before judges who are ungodly? Why not let the holy ones decide who is right?
leave your gift at the altar and go make peace with your brother. Then return and make your offering.
Starting a quarrel is like releasing water [from a floodgate]. Therefore stop contention before it begins.
If he does not listen to you, take one or two more people with you. Two or three witnesses may prove every case.
Come to an agreement quickly with the one who has a legal case against you. Do it before he turns the case over to the judge and you are thrown into jail.
The cast lot causes contentions to cease and decides between the mighty ones.
Be angry and do not sin. Do not let the sun go down upon your anger (rage).
Abram said to Lot: Let us not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers.
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has discord? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
What can a righteous person do when the foundations of life are destroyed?
The midwives respected God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them. They let the boys live.
Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
With prayer and supplication pray at all times in the Spirit. Watch with all perseverance and supplication for all the holy ones.
Put on the full armor (every implement) of God, that you may be able to stand against the cunning (inventive) (clever) methods of the devil.
Her husband Joseph was an honorable man and did not want to disgrace her publicly. So he decided to break the marriage agreement with her secretly.
When a king commands ten thousand men to fight another king who comes against him with twenty thousand men, he will sit down first and decide if he is strong enough to defeat the other king.
Jehovah is in his holy temple. Jehovah's throne is in heaven. His eyes see. They examine the sons of men.
In all disputes the priests must act as judges and make decisions based on my Laws. They must obey my rules and my regulations at all my festivals. They must observe holy days to worship me.
The Spirit lifted me and took me away. I went away feeling bitter and angry. The strong power of Jehovah came over me.
A member of the crowd said: Teacher, help my brother divide the inheritance with me.
Debate your cause with your neighbor direct; and do not reveal the secret of another.
He rains down fire and burning sulfur upon wicked people. He makes them drink from a cup filled with scorching wind.
You have tested us, O God. You have refined us in the same way silver is refined.
They hoped to put fear in us, saying: Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.
And he will be determined to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions. He will perform them. He will give him the daughter of women, to corrupt her; but she will not stand or be on his side.
Quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time.
They asked: Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and came to offer him praise.
They screamed at him, saying: What have we to do with you, Son of God? Have you come to torment us before the time?
Jehovah tests (examines) righteous and wicked people alike. He hates wicked people and the ones who love violence.
He said: No, but as captain of the camp of Jehovah I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down and said: What does my lord say to his servant?
He will turn back to the coastlands and will capture many. However, a prince will cause the reproach offered by him to cease. He will cause his reproach to turn upon him.
When he went into the Temple, the chief priests and those in authority over the people came to him while he was teaching. They asked: By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?
Once again there was a battle between the Philistines and Israel. David and his men went to fight the Philistines. David became exhausted.
Wicked people bend their bows. They set their arrows against the strings to shoot in the dark at people who are upright in heart.
([Psalm of David]) I have taken refuge in Jehovah. How can you say to me: Flee to your mountain like a bird?
After he was given the piece of bread Satan entered him. Jesus said to him: Do what you do quickly.
I would be with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins.
Jehovah is righteous. He loves a righteous way of life. Upright people will see his face (contemplate his presence).
Though he put me to death, yet I will hope in him. I will defend my ways before him.
I advanced as a Jew beyond many of my own age among my countrymen. I was more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
Stand firm therefore and gird your loins with truth. Put on the breastplate of righteousness.
Also take up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
Paul and Barnabas had an intense (harsh) dispute and debate with them. They concluded that Paul, Barnabas, and others should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders to settle this question.
I know all of you and have preached the kingdom with you. But you will not see me again.
Joseph had this in mind when God's angel appeared to him in a dream. The angel said to him: Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. She is pregnant by Holy Spirit.
