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102 Bible verses for reconciliation in the family
And become good toward each other, compassionate, forgiving each other, even as also God in Christ forgave us.
forbearing each other, and forgiving yourselves, if any man has a complaint against any, just as also the Christ forgave you, so also ye,
And brothers, if a man is overtaken in some transgression, ye the spiritual, restore such in a spirit of meekness, looking to thyself lest thou also be tempted.
For ye were called for this. Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, so that ye should follow his footsteps.Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth.Who, being reviled, did not revile in return. Suffering, he did not threaten, but yielded to him who judges righteously.
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, who are the called according to purpose.
so that there would be no schisms in the body, but that the parts would have the same care for each other.
Husbands, love your own wives even as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it,
And those who shall be of thee shall build the old waste places. Thou shall raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow, but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and has not another to lift him up.
He who is slow to anger is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.
For thou, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.
And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.But even if she separates, she shall remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to leave his wife.
He has shown thee, O man, what is good. And what does LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Take heed to yourselves. And if thy brother should sin against thee, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him.And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times in the day turn back, saying, I repent, thou will forgive him.
Confess ye the trespasses to each other, and pray for each other so that ye may be healed. A working supplication of a righteous man is very powerful.
A new commandment I give to you, that ye should love each other, just as I loved you, so that ye also should love each other.By this all men will know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love among each other.
Come now, and let us reason together, says LORD, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Let no corrupt speech go out of your mouth, rather if there is any good word for edification of a need, so that it may give grace to those who hear.
Let us not therefore criticize each other any more, but judge ye this instead, not to place a stumbling block to the brother, or a snare.
And having known their thoughts Jesus said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to ruin, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me.
All things therefore, as many as ye may want that men should do to you, so also do ye to them, for this is the law and the prophets.
LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over thee with joy. He will rest in his love. He will joy over thee with singing.
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and the two (LXX/NT) shall be one flesh.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.For the wrath of man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart o
Do all things without grumblings and arguments,so that ye may become blameless and pure children of God, blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
And he will go ahead, in front of him, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn back the hearts of fathers toward children, and the disobedient in a mentality of the righteous, to make ready for Lord a people prepared.
Finally brothers, farewell. Be thoroughly prepared, be encouraged, think the same way, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but joy is to the counselors of peace.
Likewise younger men should be subordinate to the elder men. And all being subordinate to each other, clothe yourselves with humility, because God sets himself against the haughty, but gives grace to the lowly.
Children, obey your parents in Lord, for this is right.Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise,so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth.And ye fathers, do not exasperate your children, but rear them in the training and admonition of Lord.
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and do not forsake the law of thy mother.Bind them continually upon thy heart. Tie them about thy neck.When thou walk, it shall lead thee. When thou sleep, it shall watch over thee. And when thou awake, it shall talk with thee.
But if any man does not provide for his own, and especially those belonging his household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
And as for you, ye meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.
in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves.Look ye out (each man) not to things of yourselves, but each man also to the things of others.
If therefore thou should bring thy gift to the altar, and remember there that thy brother has anything against thee,leave there thy gift before the altar, and go. First be reconciled to thy brother, and then, after coming, bring thy gift.
So then we should pursue the things of peace, and the things of constructiveness for each other.
My Little children, we should not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Now may the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to think the same way among each other, in accord with Christ Jesus,
But the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceful, meek, easily entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and non-hypocritical.And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace to those who make peace.
Now I beseech you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and there be no divisions among you, but ye may be thoroughly prepared in the same mind and in the same understanding.
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarrelling.
And having risen, he went to his father. But while he was still distant, afar off, his father saw him and felt compassion. And having ran, he fell on his neck, and kissed him much.
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him, and they wept.
Thus LORD of hosts has spoken, saying, Execute TRUE justice, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
And he kissed all his brothers, and wept upon them. And after that his brothers talked with him.
Owe no man anything except to love each other, for he who loves the other has fulfilled law.
Put on therefore, as chosen men of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassion, kindness, humility, mildness, longsuffering,
See that not any man repays evil for evil to any man, but always pursue the good, both for each other and for all.
Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
But God commends his love toward us, that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
But being truthful in love, we may cause all things to grow for him who is the head--the Christ--
By this we know love, because that man laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, no man shall separate.
And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brothers.
And all things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and who gave to us the ministry of reconciliation.How that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the dividing wall of partition,
fulfill my joy, that ye may think the same way, having the same love, being knit in soul, thinking in oneness,
Then Peter having come to him, he said, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?Jesus says to him, I say to thee, not until seven times, but until seventy times seven.
Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.
We love him, because he first loved us.If any man says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?And we have this commandment from him, so that he who loves God will also love his brother.
He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates chief friends.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up.It does not behave improperly, does not seek the things of itself, is not made sharp, does not contemplate evil,
A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city, and [such] contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Children, obey your parents in Lord, for this is right.Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise,so that it may become well with thee, and thou will be long lasting on the earth.
And above all having fervent love for yourselves, because love will cover a multitude of sins,
Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.