Bible Verses about “resolving conflict”

“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.”

“Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.”

“So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;”

“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.”

“"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.”

“for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.”

“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”

“"Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,”

“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.”

“bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.”

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”

“"But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,”

“Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.”

“You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.”

“Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?”

“You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”

“You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.”

“But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."”

“leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.”

“Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.”

“Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,”

“looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;”

“Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?”