Disagreements and conflicts within the church are addressed throughout the New Testament. In Philippians, believers are encouraged to conduct themselves in a manner worthy of the gospel, avoiding grumbling and arguing. The apostle Paul also addressed conflicts in the early church, as seen in Galatians, where he opposed Peter for his hypocritical behavior, and in 1 Timothy, where he instructed leaders to rebuke sinners publicly. Additionally, Jesus taught His followers to love their enemies and pray for those who persecute them, as recorded in Matthew, and Romans reminds believers to accept those who are weak in faith, rather than passing judgment on them.
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Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.
But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.
When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood to be condemned.
The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.