Top 14 Bible Verses-How to Settle Arguments …
Anger!
Arguments!
Aren’t you glad modern society has none of those problems?
Oh.
Well, maybe I spoke too quickly…
We argue with families and friends…
With coworkers and bosses.
We argue about politics…
And religion…
And about all the ways people mistreat us (We think.)
Isn’t there some way to get rid of all the anger
Check out these Top 14 Bible Verses-How to Settle Arguments …
Matthew 18:15-17
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Ephesians 4:31-32
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Matthew 18:15
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
Colossians 3:13
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Matthew 5:9
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Ephesians 4:26
Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
James 4:1-6
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? …
Luke 17:3
Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,
Matthew 5:24
Leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
James 1:19-21
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Luke 6:27
“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Matthew 7:5
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
One thought on “Top 14 Bible Verses-How to Settle Arguments”
I am seeing a contradiction
Matthew 18:15-17
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
Ephesians 4:31-32
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
It seems there might be one between those two verses above pasted. The first two in the post you posted.
If I let all bitterness and wrath and anger and glamour and slander be put away, let the key word here in trust for Father and Son to do this work, not me in my flesh for it can’t do it.
Then won’t I forgive as forgiven first my brothers, any and all, even if they try to or even harm me. Would I need to go further than making this brother(s) after telling him, those what I am feeling.
I am to go to council of others in a Church building? Am I to consult with Job Counselors, other flesh and blood that is not perfect either, the same as I am not perfect and not one other is.
I have seen that verse in Matthew used, against other members, not me or my wife, and was caught up in it. And Today it was not used righteously from Father and Son. Meant to be that way, yet flesh just continues to get in the way. At least this be what I have seen in me.
About Prov. 15:1, is very true a kind word turns away wrath. Yes it does if it is kind.
How many times I have used kind words, and my Spirit behind it was not in it, my body language said different
Just like telling a dog you love the dog, in as harsh voice. Is that Dog going to respond happily to you, when hearing harsh words?
So as said a million times over it is the Spirit of the person that is the person, and in Son as risen talking over us, we learn what to let go and let God means, reckoning ourselves dead to sin. Which is bein g dead to flesh, What? How by belief Romans 8:3, all sin today is condemned to flesh and blood human.
For us to be alive to pray with our soul eyes, to see nothing but in Spirit and Truth only. Still on training wheels, just learning to not judge, seeing how since I have sinned and might again as have in past, I see to not harm no one
For God went to the cross in Son for us to reconcile us as told in 2 Cor.5:7, 16-20
Then raised Son back alive complete in both flesh and blood and in Spirit and truth for us to believe and be saved by Father only
As we all go out and about doing, trying and making mistakes along the way in doing good that no flesh can perfectly do, bu6t God himself, that he did in Son for us to be adopted in by belief to this truth and just be new, dead to first birth, alive in the new birth as risen from the dead as Son is