16 Bible Verses about Family Conflict

the father against the son, and the son against the father; and the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law.

Which one of you having a matter dares to go to law with another before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?

Do you think that I have come to give peace on the earth? I say unto you, Nay, but division.

For I came to divide a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law:

if he may not hear thee, take with thyself one or two, in order that in the mouth of two or three witnesses the word may stand.

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

But remember the former days, in which, you being illuminated by the Spirit, endured a great fight of afflictions;

Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

But if he may not hear them, tell the church: and if indeed he may not hear the church, let him be to thee as a heathen and publican.

leave there your gift before the altar, and go, first be reconciled to your brother, then having come offer your gift.

Then therefore you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and members of the household of God,

but I do not permit a woman to dictate or usurp authority over her husband, but to be in silence.

and to knowledge holiness; and to holiness patience; and patience, godliness;

Every one believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving with divine love him who begat, also loves him who has been begotten of him, with divine love.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places.