Bible Verses About Interpersonal Conflict

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

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

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

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;

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

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

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

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

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

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

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

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

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

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.

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 the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?