Bible Verses About Dispute Resolution

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.

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.

Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

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

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

When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

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;

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

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

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

One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

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

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

Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

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.

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

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

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

The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment.

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

For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.

And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.

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.

Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!

And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?