49 Bible Verses about Family Problems

(but if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),

And the enemies of a man [will be] the members of his household.

He who brings trouble [to] his household, he will inherit wind, and a fool will serve the wise of heart.

The friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity.

{Resist him}, steadfast in your faith, [because you] know the same [kinds] of sufferings are being accomplished by your community of believers in the world.

Does anyone among you, [if he] has a matter against someone else, dare to go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

But if you marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake [them], and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.

And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. {So its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent}.

They will not be put to shame in distressing times, and in [the] days of famine they will be satisfied.

Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap.

A grief to his father [is] the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Now 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 evil, by which some, [because they] desire [it], have gone astray from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.

{No evil will happen} to the righteous, but the wicked are filled [with] trouble.

They shall not labor for nothing, and they shall not give birth to horror, for they {shall be offspring blessed by} Yahweh, and their descendants with them.

Better a dry morsel and quiet with it than a house filled [with] feasts of strife.

Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Go--you and all your household--into the ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before me in this generation.

Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.

But the one who is married cares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

Jesus replied, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but [it happened] so that the works of God could be revealed in him.

In the day of prosperity, rejoice! But in the day of adversity, consider! For God made one in place of another so that mortals cannot find out what will happen {in the future}.

The heart knows the bitterness of its soul, but in its joy, it will not share itself with a stranger.

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for [he said], "God has caused me to forget all my hardship and all my father's house."

Whoever blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of trustworthiness, and the one who swears an oath in the land shall swear by the God of trustworthiness, because the former troubles are forgotten, and they are hidden from my eyes.

[For] he who returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.

casting all your cares on him, because {he cares} for you.

And {David was in a very precarious situation}, for the people spoke of stoning him, for the souls of all the people were bitter, each [one] over his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

My people--children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading [you], and they confuse the course of your paths.

So Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. {Thus he had} fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those [who are] in all affliction with the comfort with which [we] ourselves are comforted by God.

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, making me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites! I [am] few in number! If they gather against me and attack me, I will be destroyed--I and my household!"

There [was] a famine in the days of David [for] three years, year after year. And David {inquired of Yahweh}, and Yahweh said, "The bloodguilt [is] on Saul and on his household, because he killed the Gibeonites."

each of you not looking out for {your own interests}, but also each of you [for] {the interests} of others.

While your enemies are falling, do not rejoice; when he trips himself, may your heart not be glad

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if by you the world is judged, are you unworthy of the most insignificant courts?

I will say to Yahweh, "[You are] my refuge and my fortress, my God [in whom] I trust."

a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord between brothers.

'You have looked for much, and look! [It came] to little; and [when] you brought [it] home, I blew it [away]. Why?' {declares} Yahweh of hosts. 'Because my house [is] desolate and you [are] running each to your own house!

Grabbing onto the ears of a dog passing by [is] one who meddles in a quarrel [that is] not his own.

He who makes trouble for his house [is] he who is greedy for unjust gain, but he who hates bribes will live.

[There will be] affliction and distress for every {human being} who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek,

The men of the city said to Elisha, "Please now, the location of the city [is] good, as my master can see, but the water [is] bad and the land unproductive."

For lack of wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling will cease.

leave your gift there before the altar and first go be reconciled to your brother, and then come [and] present your gift.

And his disciples asked him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?"

and you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end--this one will be saved.

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning [are] one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors in the days of their sojourning."