102 Bible verses for reconciliation in the family

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!

My brothers and sisters, if anyone is detected in a transgression, you who have received the Spirit should restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness. Take care that you yourselves are not tempted.

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his steps. “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.”When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.

that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another.

Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds,

Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in.

Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their toil.For if they fall, one will lift up the other, but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help.

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.

To the married I give this command—not I but the Lord—that the wife should not separate from her husband(but if she does separate, let her remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband) and that the husband should not divorce his wife.

He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?

Be on your guard! If a brother or sister sins, you must rebuke the offender, and if there is repentance, you must forgive.And if the same person sins against you seven times a day and turns back to you seven times and says, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive.”

Therefore confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: If your sins are like scarlet, will they become like snow? If they are red like crimson, will they become like wool?

Let no evil talk come out of your mouths but only what is good for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear.

Let us therefore no longer pass judgment on one another, but resolve instead never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother or sister.

He knew what they were thinking and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.

I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.

but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” So I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

“In everything do to others as you would have them do to you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Let mutual affection continue.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power;

You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,for human anger does not produce God’s righteousness.

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kindly to everyone, an apt teacher, patient,

For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite.

She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

Do all things without murmuring and arguing,so that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world,

Those with good sense are slow to anger, and it is their glory to overlook an offense.

With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go before him, to turn the hearts of parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Be restored; listen to my appeal; agree with one another; live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Deceit is in the mind of those who plan evil, but those who counsel peace have joy.

In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.“Honor your father and mother”—this is the first commandment with a promise—“so that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

My child, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.Bind them upon your heart always; tie them around your neck.When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is your acceptable duty in the Lord.

And whoever does not provide for relatives, and especially for family members, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.

By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.

Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.Let each of you look not to your own interests but to the interests of others.

So when you are offering your gift at the altar, if you remember that your brother or sister has something against you,leave your gift there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother or sister, and then come and offer your gift.

Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Little children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.

Those who are hot-tempered stir up strife, but those who are slow to anger calm contention.

May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in harmony with one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus,

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you but that you be knit together in the same mind and the same purpose.

It is honorable to refrain from strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel.

being subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.

So he set off and went to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion; he ran and put his arms around him and kissed him.

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

I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another;

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them, and after that his brothers talked with him.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.

See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

When the ways of people please the Lord, he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.

but speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil; hold fast to what is good;

We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.

Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life and honor.

So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

Be hospitable to one another without complaining.

Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me and between your herders and my herders, for we are kindred.

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation;that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.

For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us,

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, if my brother or sister sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?”Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times.

Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

We love because he first loved us.Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.

One who forgives an affront fosters friendship, but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend.

making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace:

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.

Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.

You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogantor rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs;

An ally offended is stronger than a city; such quarreling is like the bars of a castle.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.“Honor your father and mother”—this is the first commandment with a promise—“so that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”

If my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will take me up.

Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

“For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,but if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.