18 Bible Verses about Hatred Between Relatives

And Jehovah said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?

And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, and they hated him, and could not greet him with friendliness.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have cried aloud after thee. Believe them not, though they speak good words unto thee.

Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity; and his anger did tear continually, and he kept his wrath for ever.

Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant.

But ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relations and friends, and they shall put to death some from among you,

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, who is to thee as thy soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods (whom thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; of the gods of the peoples which are round about you, near unto thee, or far from thee, from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth), thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye spare him, neither shalt thou pity him, neither shalt thou screen him,read more.
but thou shalt in any case kill him: thy hand shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people; and thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; for he hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law: a man's enemies are the men of his own household.

and they of his household shall be a man's enemies.

Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

All the brethren of a poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him: he pursueth them with words, they are not to be found.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and contentions are as the bars of a palace.

But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not despised save in his own country, and among his kinsmen, and in his own house.

If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

a false witness that uttereth lies, and he that soweth discords among brethren.