48 Bible Verses about Family Conflict
Most Relevant Verses
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."
How dare one of you having business with another, go to law under the wicked? And not rather under the saints?
and looked, and gat me up, and said unto the chief men and rulers, and to the other people, "Be not ye afraid of them, but think rather upon the great LORD, which ought to be feared; and fight for your brethren, sons, daughters, wives, and houses."
He is a friend that always loveth, and in adversity a man shall know who is his brother.
Notwithstanding, the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them: but saved the men children.
From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?
The LORD is mindful of us, and blesseth us - he blesseth the house of Israel; he blesseth the house of Aaron;
"Suppose ye that I am come to send peace on earth? I tell you, nay: but rather debate.
Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a full house and many fat cattle with strife.
Whoso goeth by and meddleth with other men's strife, he is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
For I am 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 hear thee not, then take yet with thee one or two, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses, all things may be established.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the holy ghost, be with you all. Amen. {The end of the Second Epistle unto the Corinthians, Sent from Philippi, a city in Macedonia, by Titus and Luke}
Then said Abram unto Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me, and between my herdsmen and thine, for we be brethren.
Among the proud there is ever strife; but among those that do all things with advisement, there is wisdom.
Call to remembrance the days that are passed in the which, after ye had received light, ye endured a great fight in adversities,
A froward body causeth strife; and he that is a babble of his tongue, maketh division among princes.
Think not, that I am come to send peace into the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out; and where the backbiter is taken away, there the strife ceaseth.
save the women and the children and the cattle and all that is in the city and all the spoil thereof take unto thyself and eat the spoil of thine enemies which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
If he hear not them, tell it unto the congregation: if he hear not the congregation, take him as a heathen man, and as a publican.
leave there thine offering before the altar, and go thy way first, and be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
See that ye know no man in judgment: but hear the small as well as the great and be afraid of no man, for the judgment is God's. And the cause that is too hard for you, bring unto me and I will hear it.'
And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac.
Through counsel the things that men devise go forward; and with discretion ought wars to be taken in hand.
He that soweth discord and strife, is like one that diggeth up a water brook; but an open enemy is like the water that breaketh out and runneth abroad.
Let the house of Aaron put their trust in the LORD, for he is their helper and defender.
And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a man of might of the kindred of Elimelech, named Boaz.
He will be a wild man, and his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. And yet shall he dwell fast by all his brethren."
Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners: but citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
And David asked the LORD, saying, "Shall I follow after this company? And shall I overtake them?" And he said to him, "Follow, for thou shalt overtake them and recover the prey."
But lo, as for me, and the children which the LORD hath given me: we are a token and a wonder in Israel, for the LORD of Hosts' sake, which dwelleth upon the hill of Zion.
He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in a house, and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity, but letteth the renegades continue in scarceness.
Thou shalt be no usurer unto thy brother, neither in money nor in food, nor in any manner thing that is lent upon usury.
And the children strove together within her. Then she said, "If it should go so to pass, what helpeth it that I am with child?" And she went and asked the LORD.
There shall no evil happen unto thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
I suffer not a woman to teach, neither to have authority over the man: but for to be in silence.
Jacob lift up his eyes and saw his brother Esau come, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Lea and unto Rachel and unto the two maidens.
In the latter time, shall the king of the south strive with him; and the king of the north in like manner shall come against him with chariots, horsemen and with a great navy of ships. He shall come into the lands, destroy and go through:
These two kings shall be minded to do mischief, and talk of deceit at one table: but they shall not prosper. For why? The end shall not come yet, unto the time appointed.
For behold, this day do I make thee a strong fenced town, an iron pillar, and a wall of steel against the whole land; against the kings and mighty men of Judah; against the priests and people of the land.
So speak of the children of Israel: in the number of them were ancient heads and captains of thousands and hundreds, and officers that served the king in all things according to the companies that came in or went out, month by month throughout all the months of the year. And every company had twenty four thousand.
And everyone that builded, had his sword gird by his side, and so builded they. And the trumpeters stood beside me.
For wisdom is better than harness: but one unthrifty alone destroyeth much good.
All that believe that Jesus is Christ, are born of God. And all that loveth him which begat, loveth him also which was begotten of him.
For nation shall rise against nation, and realm against realm: and there shall be pestilence, and hunger, and earthquakes in all quarters.
