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Proverbs 26:21
As charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.
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Proverbs 29:22
An angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered one increases rebellion.
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Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
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Proverbs 14:29
A patient person shows great understanding, but a quick-tempered one promotes foolishness.
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Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the ruler’s anger rises against you, don’t leave your post, for calmness puts great offenses to rest.
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Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.
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Proverbs 28:25
A greedy person stirs up conflict, but whoever trusts in the LORD will prosper.
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Proverbs 16:28
A contrary person spreads conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.
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James 3:14-16
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth.Such wisdom does not come down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.
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James 1:19-20
My dear brothers and sisters, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,for human anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.
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Acts 6:1-5
In those days, as the disciples were increasing in number, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.The Twelve summoned the whole company of the disciples and said,“ It would not be right for us to give up preaching the word of God to wait on tables.Brothers and sisters, select from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Spirit and wisdom, whom we can appoint to this duty.But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”This proposal pleased the whole company. So they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a convert from Antioch.
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1 Samuel 25 24-1 Samuel 25 44
She knelt at his feet and said,“ The guilt is mine, my lord, but please let your servant speak to you directly. Listen to the words of your servant.My lord should pay no attention to this worthless fool Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means‘ stupid,’ and stupidity is all he knows. I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent.Now my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live— it is the LORD who kept you from participating in bloodshed and avenging yourself by your own hand— may your enemies and those who intend to harm my lord be like Nabal.Let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD is certain to make a lasting dynasty for my lord because he fights the LORD’s battles. Throughout your life, may evil not be found in you.“ Someone is pursuing you and intends to take your life. My lord’s life is tucked safely in the place where the LORD your God protects the living, but he is flinging away your enemies’ lives like stones from a sling.When the LORD does for my lord all the good he promised you and appoints you ruler over Israel,there will not be remorse or a troubled conscience for my lord because of needless bloodshed or my lord’s revenge. And when the LORD does good things for my lord, may you remember me your servant.”Then David said to Abigail,“ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today!May your discernment be blessed, and may you be blessed. Today you kept me from participating in bloodshed and avenging myself by my own hand.Otherwise, as surely as the LORD God of Israel lives, who prevented me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, Nabal wouldn’t have had any males left by morning light.”Then David accepted what she had brought him and said,“ Go home in peace. See, I have heard what you said and have granted your request.”Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was in his house, holding a feast fit for a king. Nabal’s heart was cheerful, and he was very drunk, so she didn’t say anything to him until morning light.In the morning when Nabal sobered up, his wife told him about these events. His heart died and he became a stone.About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead.When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said,“ Blessed be the LORD who championed my cause against Nabal’s insults and restrained his servant from doing evil. The LORD brought Nabal’s evil deeds back on his own head.” Then David sent messengers to speak to Abigail about marrying him.When David’s servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her,“ David sent us to bring you to him as a wife.”She stood up, paid homage with her face to the ground, and said,“ Here I am, your servant, a slave to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”Then Abigail got up quickly, and with her five female servants accompanying her, rode on the donkey following David’s messengers. And so she became his wife.David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and the two of them became his wives.But Saul gave his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.
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Genesis 13:8-9
So Abram said to Lot,“ Please, let’s not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives.Isn’t the whole land before you? Separate from me: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
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Judges 8:1-3
The men of Ephraim said to him,“ Why have you done this to us, not calling us when you went to fight against the Midianites?” And they argued with him violently.So he said to them,“ What have I done now compared to you? Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?God handed over to you Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he said this, their anger against him subsided.
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Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up conflicts, but love covers all offenses.
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Proverbs 25:15
A ruler can be persuaded through patience, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
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2 Samuel 19 43-2 Samuel 20 1
The men of Israel answered the men of Judah,“ We have ten shares in the king, so we have a greater claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Weren’t we the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the words of the men of Judah were harsher than those of the men of Israel.Now a wicked man, a Benjaminite named Sheba son of Bichri, happened to be there. He blew the ram’s horn and shouted: We have no portion in David, no inheritance in Jesse’s son. Each man to his tent, Israel!
