48 Bible Verses about Family Conflict

The father will 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 will increase you more and more, you and your children.

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

And I looked, and arose, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be ye not 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 loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male-children alive.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members?

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

Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, No; but rather division:

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness with it, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.

He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, 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 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 love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.

And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we are brethren.

Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well-advised is wisdom.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

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

Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth.

But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, shalt thou take to thyself: and thou shalt eat the spoil of thy enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church: but if he shall neglect to hear the church, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican.

Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to 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 to me, and I will hear it.

And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore withdraw from contention, before it be meddled with.

O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.

And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, 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 more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

And David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue 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 hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the LORD of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of any thing that is lent upon interest:

And the children struggled together within her: and she said, If it is so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD.

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

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

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

And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

And both these kings hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table; but it shall not prosper: for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.

For behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against her princes, against her priests, and against the people of the land.

Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers, and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.

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

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Whoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten by him.

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