1. Practise active listening; listening more than you speak
So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
James 1:19
2. Speak with kindness and love, using the appropriate word
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Colossians 4:6
3. Be honest and truthful while you deploy wisdom
but, speaking the truth in love…
Ephesians 4:15a
4. Be patient and understanding while you avoid haste
with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,
Ephesians 4:2.
5. Control your temper and avoid emotional outbursts
"Be angry, and do not sin": do not let the sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to the devil.
Ephesians 4:26-27
6. Forgive and seek reconciliation quickly especially after every discussion
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32
7. Encourage and uplift each other through words of affirmation
Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
8. Be humble and willing to admit your mistakes
But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."
James 4:6
9. Don’t hesitate to seek counsel and guidance when needed
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 11:14
10. Pray together and pray for each other
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
James 5:16
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