Conflict Resolution: Biblical Principles for Peace and Reconciliation

JAMES 4:1-3

James 4:1: From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
James 4:2: Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
James 4:3: Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
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1 PETER 2:1-3

1 Peter 2:1: Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
1 Peter 2:2: As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
1 Peter 2:3: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.
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PROVERBS 6:16-19

Proverbs 6:16: # These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:
Proverbs 6:17: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Proverbs 6:18: An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Proverbs 6:19: A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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PROVERBS 13:10

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

ROMANS 14:1-3

Romans 14:1: Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, [but] not to doubtful disputations.
Romans 14:2: For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
Romans 14:3: Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
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