Bible Verses about “confrontation”
The Bible contains 23 verses about confrontation across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,”
“"If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.”
“Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?”
“You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.”
“Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?”
“But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.”
“If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.”
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them."”
“but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;”
“Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;”
“preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.”
“Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.”
“Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.”
“"'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.”
“Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”
“Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.”
“If any man doesn't obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.”
“Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.”
“"'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.”
“But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.”
“For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.”
“But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?”
“And the rest of the Jews joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.”