Bible Verses about “resolving conflict”
The Bible contains 24 verses about resolving conflict across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
“Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
“¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:”
“¶ ‹Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.›”
“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”
“¶ A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.”
“Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:”
“‹But if he will not hear› [thee, then] ‹take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.›”
“‹And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell› [it] ‹unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.›”
“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also [do] ye.”
“‹Blessed› [are] ‹the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.›”
“¶ ‹But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,›”
“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”
“Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.”
“¶ From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?”
“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.”
“But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.”
“‹Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.›”
“‹Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.›”
“Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:”
“Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;”
“Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?”