50 Bible Verses about Resolving Conflict

It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.

How is it, that if any one of you has a cause at law against another, he takes it before a Gentile judge and not before the saints?

While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.

The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.

Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison.

The decision of chance puts an end to argument, parting the strong.

And there was an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.

Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;

The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.

Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.

And the Apostles and the rulers of the church came together and gave thought to the question.

Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?

If the bases are broken down, what is the upright man to do?

But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.

And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,

Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately.

Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.

In any cause, they are to be in the position of judges, judging in harmony with my decisions: they are to keep my laws and my rules in all my fixed feasts; and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.

And the wind, lifting me up, took me away: and I went in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.

And one of the people said to him, Master, give an order to my brother to make division of the heritage with me.

Have a talk with your neighbour himself about your cause, but do not give away the secret of another:

On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.

For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

For they were hoping 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 it will be his purpose to come with the strength of all his kingdom, but in place of this he will make an agreement with him; and he will give him the daughter of women to send destruction on it; but this will not take place or come about.

And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.

Saying, Where is the King of the Jews whose birth has now taken place? We have seen his star in the east and have come to give him worship.

And they gave a loud cry, saying, What have we to do with you, you Son of God? Have you come here to give us punishment before the time?

The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.

And he said, No; but I have come as captain of the armies of the Lord. Then Joshua, falling down with his face to the earth in worship, said, What has my lord to say to his servant?

After this, his face will be turned to the islands, and he will take a number of them: but a chief, by his destruction, will put an end to the shame offered by him; and more than this, he will make his shame come back on him.

And when he had come into the Temple, the chief priests and those in authority over the people came to him while he was teaching, and said, By what authority do you do these things? and who gave you this authority?

And the Philistines went to war again with Israel; and David went down with his people, and while they were at Gob they had a fight with the Philistines:

See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.

In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

And when Judas took the bread Satan went into him. Then Jesus said to him, Do quickly what you have to do.

With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

For the Lord is upright; he is a lover of righteousness: the upright will see his face.

Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;

And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One.

And after Paul and Barnabas had had no little argument and discussion with them, the brothers made a decision to send Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them to the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem about this question.

And now I am conscious that you, among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom, will not see my face again.

But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the Holy Spirit.