48 Bible Verses about Family Conflict
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a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'
Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?
And I see, and rise up, and say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of the people, 'Be not afraid of them; the Lord, the great and the fearful, remember ye, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.'
At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.
And the midwives fear God, and have not done as the king of Egypt hath spoken unto them, and keep the lads alive;
Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?
Jehovah hath remembered us, He blesseth, He blesseth the house of Israel, He blesseth the house of Aaron,
'Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division;
Better is a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.
Laying hold on the ears of a dog, Is a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.
for I came to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.
the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, is with you all! Amen.
And Abram saith unto Lot, 'Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we are men -- brethren.
And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,
A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.
'Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;
Only, the women, and the infants, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, all its spoil, thou dost seize for thyself, and thou hast eaten the spoil of thine enemies which Jehovah thy God hath given to thee.
And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.
leave there thy gift before the altar, and go -- first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.
ye do not discern faces in judgment; as the little so the great ye do hear; ye are not afraid of the face of any, for the judgment is God's, and the thing which is too hard for you, ye bring near unto me, and I have heard it;
And these are births of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham hath begotten Isaac;
The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.
O house of Aaron, trust in Jehovah, 'Their help and their shield is He.'
And Naomi hath an acquaintance of her husband's, a man mighty in wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name is Boaz.
and he is a wild-ass man, his hand against every one, and every one's hand against him -- and before the face of all his brethren he dwelleth.'
Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,
and David asketh at Jehovah, saying, 'I pursue after this troop -- do I overtake it?' And He saith to him, 'Pursue, for thou dost certainly overtake, and dost certainly deliver.'
Lo, I, and the children whom Jehovah hath given to me, Are for signs and for wonders in Israel, From Jehovah of Hosts, who is dwelling in Mount Zion.
God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place.
'Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury.
and the children struggle together within her, and she saith, 'If it is right -- why am I thus?' and she goeth to seek Jehovah.
and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
And Jacob lifteth up his eyes, and looketh, and lo, Esau is coming, and with him four hundred men; and he divideth the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two maid-servants;
'And at the time of the end, push himself forward with him doth a king of the south, and storm against him doth a king of the north, with chariot, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he hath come in to the lands, and hath overflowed, and passed over,
And both of the kings' hearts are to do evil, and at one table they speak lies, and it doth not prosper, for yet the end is at a time appointed.
And I, lo, I have given thee this day for a fenced city, and for an iron pillar, and for brazen walls over all the land, to the kings of Judah, to its heads, to its priests, and to the people of the land;
And the sons of Israel, after their number, heads of the fathers, and princes of the thousands and of the hundreds, and their officers, those serving the king in any matter of the courses, that are coming in and going out month by month, throughout all months of the year -- are in each course twenty and four thousand.
And the builders are each with his sword, girded on his loins, and building, and he who is blowing with a trumpet is beside me.
Better is wisdom than weapons of conflict, And one sinner destroyeth much good!
Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:
'For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places;
