16 Bible Verses about Family Conflict

'Father will be opposed to son and son to father, mother to daughter and daughter to mother, mother-in-law to her daughter-in- law and daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law.'"

Can it be that, when one of you has a dispute with another, he dares to have his case tried before the heathen, instead of before Christ's People?

What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?

Do you think that I am here to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but to cause division.

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

But, if he does not listen to you, take with you one or two others, so that 'on the evidence of two or three witnesses, every word may be put beyond dispute.'

May the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion with the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Call to mind those early days in which, after you had received the Light, you patiently underwent a long and painful conflict.

Do not imagine that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring, not peace, but the sword.

If he refuses to listen to them, speak to the Church; and, if he also refuses to listen to the Church, treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

Leave your gift there, before the altar, go and be reconciled to your brother, first, then come and present your gift.

It follows, then, that you are no longer strangers and aliens, but are fellow-citizens with Christ's People and members of God's Household.

I do not consent to a woman's becoming a teacher, or exercising authority over a man; she ought to be silent.

knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety,

Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ has received the new Life from God; and every one who loves him who gave that Life loves him who has received it.

For 'nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom,' and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.