Bible Verses About Conflict in Relationships

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

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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

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.

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

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

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

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

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

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

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:

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.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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.

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

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

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

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;

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.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

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.

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

A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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

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

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

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

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

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

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

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

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

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.