16 Bible Verses about Family Conflict

father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

When any of you has a grievance against his neighbour, do you dare to go to law in a sinful pagan court, instead of laying the case before the saints?

Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

You think I am here to make peace on earth? No, I tell you, it is dissension.

I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

but if he will not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that every case may be decided on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.

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

Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering,

Do not imagine I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace but a sword.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church; and if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a pagan or a taxgatherer.

leave your gift at the very altar and go away; first be reconciled to your brother, then come back and offer your gift.

Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household,

I allow no woman to teach or dictate to men, she must keep quiet.

intelligence with self-control, self-control with stedfastness, stedfastness with piety,

Everyone who believes Jesus is the Christ, is born of God; and everyone who loves the Father, loves the sons born of him.

For nation will rise against nation, and realm against realm; there will be famines and earthquakes here and there.