48 Bible Verses about Family Conflict
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Father shall be divided against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Dare any of you, having an affair with another, be judged by the unjust, and not by the holy ones?
And I shall see, and I shall rise up and say to the nobles and to the prefects and to the rest of the people, Ye shall not be afraid from their face: remember Jehovah great and terrible; and war for yourselves, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.
A friend loves in all time, and a brother shall be born for straits.
And the midwives will fear God, and they did not according to what the king of Egypt said to them, and they will preserve alive the boys.
Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members
Jehovah remembered us: he will bless, he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
Think ye that I came to give peace in the earth? Nay, I say to you; but rather division:
Laying hold upon the ears of a dog, he passing by overflowing upon strife not to him.
For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the bride against her mother-in-law.
But if he hear thee not, take with thee yet one or two, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word might stand.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit with you all. Amen.
And Abram will say to Lot, Now there shall not be strife between me and between thee, and between my shepherds and between thy shepherds, for we are men brethren.
And recall to mind the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye endured a great combat of sufferings;
A man of perverseness shall send forth strife: and a tale-bearer separates friends.
Think not that I came to cast peace upon earth; I came not to cast peace, but a sword.
In the ceasing of wood, fire will go out: and in not being a tale-bearer, strife will subside.
Only the women and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that shall be in the city, all its spoil thou shalt plunder to thyself: and eat thou the spoil of thine enemies which Jehovah thy God gave to thee.
And if he refuse hearing them, speak to the church: and if he refuse hearing the church, let him be to thee as of the nations and a publican.
Let go there thy gift, before the altar, and retire; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then, having come, bring thy gift.
Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it
And these the generations of Isaak, son of Abraham: Abraham begetting Isaak.
The causing water to break forth. is the beginning of strife: cast off contention before being irritated.
And to Naomi an acquaintance to her husband, a strong man of wealth, from the family of Elimelech; and his name Boaz.
And he shall be an unrestrained man; his hand against every one, and every one's hand against him; and before the face of all his brethren shall he dwell.
Wherefore then are ye no more foreigners and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the holy, and the household of God;
And David will ask in Jehovah, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I hedge it in? and he will say, Pursue: and hedging, thou shalt hedge in, and taking away, thou shalt take away.
Behold me and the children which Jehovah gave to me for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of armies dwelling in mount Zion.
God setting the only ones in the house, bringing forth the bound into prosperities, but those turning away dwelt in a dry land.
Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of silver, interest of food, interest of any word which shall be lent on interest
And the sons will struggle within her: and she will say,. If so, wherefore am I thus? And she will go to inquire of Jehovah.
Evil shall not approach to thee, and a blow shall not come near in thy tent
And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care.
And Jacob will lift up his eyes and will see, and behold Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he will divide the children to Leah and to Rachel and to the two maids.
And in the time of the end the king of the south shall wage war with him: and the king of the north shall rush on like a tempest against him, with chariot and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he came into the lands, and overflowed and passed through.
And they two kings, their heart for doing evil, and at one table they will speak falsehood; and it shall not prosper: for yet the end at the appointment
Behold, I gave thee this day for a fortified city and for a pillar of iron and for a wall of brass upon all the land to the kings of Judah, to her chiefs, to her priests, and to the people of the land.
And the sons of Israel for their number, heads of the fathers and chiefs of thousands and hundreds, and their scribes serving the king for all the word of the divisions coming in and going forth month by month for all the months of the year, of the one division, twenty and four thousand.
And the builders, a man his sword being girded upon his loins, and building. And he striking upon the trumpet near me.
Wisdom is good above the instruments of encounter: and one sinning will destroy much good.
Everyone believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving him having begotten, loves him also begotten of him.
For nation shall be raised up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and plagues, and shakings in places.