Resolving Conflict
Peacemaking and reconciliation in relationships
Deuteronomy 6:19
to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken.
Read commentary →1 Kings 2:32
The Lord will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
Read commentary →1 Kings 8:44
"If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;
Read commentary →2 Chronicles 6:34
"If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatever way you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
Read commentary →Nehemiah 4:15
It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work.
Read commentary →Nehemiah 6:16
It happened, when all our enemies heard of it, that all the nations that were about us were afraid, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was worked of our God.
Read commentary →Esther 7:6
Esther said, "An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
Read commentary →Esther 9:5
The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.
Read commentary →Psalms 6:10
May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.
Read commentary →Psalms 7:5
let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
Read commentary →Psalms 9:6
The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
Read commentary →Proverbs 3:3
Do not let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Read commentary →Proverbs 4:6
Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
Read commentary →Proverbs 4:10
Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
Read commentary →Proverbs 4:21
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Read commentary →Lamentations 1:5
Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper; for the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
Read commentary →Lamentations 2:4
He has bent his bow like an enemy; his right hand he has positioned like an adversary. He killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.
Read commentary →Lamentations 2:5
The Lord has become as an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all her palaces and has destroyed its strongholds. He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Read commentary →Lamentations 3:52
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
Read commentary →Lamentations 3:58
Lord, you have taken up the case for my soul; you have redeemed my life.
Read commentary →Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel; for the Lord has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Read commentary →Micah 6:2
Hear, you mountains, the Lord's controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
Read commentary →Micah 7:8
Do not rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
Read commentary →Micah 7:9
I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.
Read commentary →Micah 7:10
Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is the Lord your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
Read commentary →Matthew 3:3
For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make ready the way of the Lord. Make his paths straight."
Read commentary →Matthew 3:11
I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but the one who comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and with fire.
Read commentary →Matthew 5:11
"Blessed are you when men insult you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Read commentary →Matthew 5:44
But I tell you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,
Read commentary →Matthew 6:2
Therefore when you do merciful deeds, do not sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from people. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Read commentary →Matthew 6:5
"And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
Read commentary →Mark 6:19
So Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she could not,
Read commentary →Mark 8:35
For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
Read commentary →Mark 9:50
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
Read commentary →Luke 3:3
He came into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.
Read commentary →Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.
Read commentary →Luke 6:26
Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.
Read commentary →Luke 6:27
"But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Read commentary →Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
Read commentary →Luke 7:26
But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.
Read commentary →Luke 9:54
When his disciples, Jacob and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them?"
Read commentary →John 3:26
They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him."
Read commentary →John 3:32
What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
Read commentary →John 7:7
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.
Read commentary →John 7:18
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
Read commentary →John 7:28
Jesus therefore called out in the temple, teaching and saying, "You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know.
Read commentary →John 8:26
I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world."
Read commentary →John 8:38
I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have heard from your father."
Read commentary →John 8:40
But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.
Read commentary →Acts 9:29
He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.
Read commentary →Romans 5:10
For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
Read commentary →1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the Law scholar of this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
Read commentary →Philippians 1:15
Some indeed proclaim Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
Read commentary →Philippians 2:3
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
Read commentary →Colossians 1:21
You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,
Read commentary →Colossians 2:1
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
Read commentary →Titus 3:9
but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Read commentary →James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.
Read commentary →James 3:16
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
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