A. Peaceable relations with others are preferable:

ROM 12:18. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

PRO 16:7. When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

JER 29:7. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

MAT 5:25. Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

COL 4:5. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

1TIM 2:1. I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

1TIM 2:2. For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

B. Try to relate to their way of thinking in order to win them:

1COR 9:19. For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

1COR 9:20. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

1COR 9:21. To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

1COR 9:22. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

1COR 10:32. Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:

1COR 10:33. Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

C. Identify with them by giving your secular background & credentials:

ACT 22:3. I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

ACT 21:39. But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.

ACT 16:36. And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.

ACT 16:37. But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.

ACT 16:38. And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

ACT 22:25. And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

ACT 22:26. When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.

ACT 22:27. Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.