Reconciliation, between believers

The cause of the breakdown in relationships is sin

Genesis 27:41 ESV

Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

The division between Joseph and his brothers:

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Samuel and Saul; Absalom and David; Paul and Barnabas; Paul opposes Peter

Believers should be reconciled to one another

Matthew 5:23–24 ESV

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

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The death of Jesus Christ should bring believers together in peace

Ephesians 2:14–22 ESV

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

The church should display reconciliation

Colossians 3:12–15 ESV

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

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Examples of reconciliation between people

Genesis 33:4 ESV

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

See also Joseph and his brothers; Israel, Reuben and Gad; Herod and Pilate; Jesus Christ and Peter; Paul and the apostles; a wife and her husband