16 Bible Verses about Family Conflict

"father against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."

Dare any one of you who has a grievance against his neighbor go to law before heathen judges, instead of before the saints?

Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?

"Do you think that I am come to make peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather dissension.

"For I came to set "a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

"But if he will not listen to you, take one or two others along, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every word may be established. If he will not listen to them, tell the church;

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings;

"Do not suppose that I am come to bring peace on the earth; I am come not to bring peace, but a sword.

"but if he will not heed the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

"leave there your gift before the altar, and go and make friends with your brother, first of all; then come and offer your gift.

Take notice then that no longer are you strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household.

I allow no woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man; but let her keep quiet.

and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control stedfastness, and to stedfastness piety,

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God; and every one who loves the Father, loves him also who is the Father's Child.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.