48 Bible Verses about Family Conflict

The father shall be divided against the son and the son against the father, the mother against the daughter and the daughter against the mother, the mother-in-law against her daughter- in-law and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

The LORD shall increase his blessing upon you more and more, upon you and your sons.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go unto judgment before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Then I looked and rose up and said unto the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, Do not be afraid of them: remember the Lord, who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

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

But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them but gave the men children their lives.

Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? From here that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?

The LORD has been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will greatly bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.

Think ye that I am come to the earth to give peace? No, I tell you, but rather division;

Better is a dry morsel in peace than the house of contention full of sacrifices for a feast.

He that passes by and meddles with strife not belonging to him is like one that takes a dog by the ears.

For I have come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the charity of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Then Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee and between my pastors and thine, for we are brethren.

Pride shall certainly give birth to contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

But bring to memory the former days, in which, after ye received the light, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

The perverse man sows strife, and the tale bearer separates princes.

Think not that I have come to introduce peace into the land; I came not to introduce peace, but a sword.

Where there is no wood, the fire goes out, so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.

Only the women and the little ones and the animals and all that is in the city, all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat of the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God has given thee.

And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the congregation ; but if he neglects to hear the congregation, let him be unto thee as a worldly man and a publican.

leave thy gift there before the altar, and go; first restore friendship with thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.

And these are the generations of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac;

Every thought must be ordered by counsel, and with intelligence war is made.

To release the waters (to speak rashly) is the beginning of contention; therefore, leave off strife before it gets started.

O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD; he is your help and your shield.

And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of strength, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

Now therefore ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints and of the household of God,

And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue; for thou shalt surely overtake them and without fail recover all.

Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of the hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.

God sets the solitary in families; he brings out those who are bound with chains, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother, usury of money, usury of food, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury.

And the sons struggled together within her; and she said, If this is so, why should I live? And she went to enquire of the LORD.

no evil shall befall thee, neither shall any plague come near thy dwelling.

For I do not allow a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over a mature man, but to be at rest.

and in knowledge, temperance; and in temperance, patience; and in patience, fear of God;

And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, Esau came and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah and unto Rachel and unto the two handmaids.

But at the end of the time the king of the south shall lock horns with him, and the king of the north shall raise up a storm against him with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships, and he shall enter into the lands and shall overflow and pass over.

And the heart of both these kings shall be to do evil, and at the same table they shall speak lies; but it shall not prosper, for the time appointed is not yet come.

For, behold, I have made thee this day as a defenced city and as an iron pillar and as a wall of brass upon all the earth against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

Now the sons of Israel after their number, who were chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, who came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, each course was of twenty-four thousand.

For the builders, each one had his sword girded by his side, and so they built. And he that sounded the shofar was by me.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God; and anyone that loves him that begat also loves him that is born of him.

For nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in different places.