100 Bible Verses About Conflict Resolution

Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,

She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.

Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites,

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the Lord hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.

If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.

As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son.

And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.

And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;

A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord.

And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.

And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.

And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.

Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

And would to God this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out.

And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.

And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord;

The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.

Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

And the people cried unto Moses; and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, the fire was quenched.

Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.

And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

So they two went until they came to Beth–lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth–lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?

And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.

And she said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me,

For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.

And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

And said, O Lord God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.

And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from Jordan even to Jerusalem.

Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king, God save the king.

So Ben–hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel–beth–maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,

Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.

And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.

And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?

And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and spoiled even all that was in the house.

He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the Lord.

And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.

And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.

Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.

And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?

And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:

And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the Lord, and returned to depart, according to the word of the Lord.

And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:

And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate.