49 Bible Verses about Family Problems

(If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God’s church?)

and a man’s enemies will be
the members of his household.

The one who brings ruin on his household
will inherit the wind,
and a fool will be a slave
to someone whose heart is wise.

A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a difficult time.

Resist him and be firm in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are being experienced by your fellow believers throughout the world.

If any of you has a legal dispute against another, do you dare go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

When good things increase, the ones who consume them multiply; what, then, is the profit to the owner, except to gaze at them with his eyes?

They will not be disgraced in times of adversity;
they will be satisfied in days of hunger.

Do not rely on a friend;
don’t trust in a close companion.
Seal your mouth
from the woman who lies in your arms.

A foolish son is grief to his father
and bitterness to the one who bore him.

Someone from the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.”

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

No disaster overcomes the righteous,
but the wicked are full of misery.

They will not labor without success
or bear children destined for disaster,
for they will be a people blessed by the Lord
along with their descendants.

Better a dry crust with peace
than a house full of feasting with strife.

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.

After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his prosperity and doubled his previous possessions.

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world—how he may please his wife—

“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works might be displayed in him.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

The heart knows its own bitterness,
and no outsider shares in its joy.

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, meaning, “God has made me forget all my hardship in my father’s house.”

Whoever is blessed in the land
will be blessed by the God of truth,
and whoever swears in the land
will swear by the God of truth.
For the former troubles will be forgotten
and hidden from My sight.

If anyone returns evil for good,
evil will never depart from his house.

casting all your care on Him, because He cares about you.

David was in a difficult position because the troops talked about stoning him, for they were all very bitter over the loss of their sons and daughters. But David found strength in the Lord his God.

Youths oppress My people,
and women rule over them.
My people, your leaders mislead you;
they confuse the direction of your paths.

So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me, making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

During David’s reign there was a famine for three successive years, so David inquired of the Lord. The Lord answered, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family when he killed the Gibeonites.”

Everyone should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

Don’t gloat when your enemy falls,
and don’t let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,

Or don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest cases?

I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”

a lying witness who gives false testimony,
and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.

“You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined it. Why?” This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts. “Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

A person who is passing by and meddles in a quarrel that’s not his
is like one who grabs a dog by the ears.

The one who profits dishonestly troubles his household,
but the one who hates bribes will live.

affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;

Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Even though our lord can see that the city’s location is good, the water is bad and the land unfruitful.”

Without wood, fire goes out;
without a gossip, conflict dies down.

leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

You will be hated by everyone because of My name. But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “My pilgrimage has lasted 130 years. My years have been few and hard, and they have not surpassed the years of my fathers during their pilgrimages.”