Bible Verses About Community Conflict

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

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;

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose;

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.

But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.