49 Bible Verses about Family Problems

(but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),

and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.

He who troubles his own house will inherit wind,
And the foolish will be servant to the wisehearted.

A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.

But resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world.

Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints?

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend,
And do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity;
Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.

If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on?

They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,
And in the days of famine they will have abundance.

Do not trust in a neighbor;
Do not have confidence in a friend.
From her who lies in your bosom
Guard your lips.

A foolish son is a grief to his father
And bitterness to her who bore him.

Someone in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.”

For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

No harm befalls the righteous,
But the wicked are filled with trouble.

“They will not labor in vain,
Or bear children for calamity;
For they are the offspring of those blessed by the Lord,
And their descendants with them.

Better is a dry morsel and quietness with it
Than a house full of feasting with strife.

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.

The Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he prayed for his friends, and the Lord increased all that Job had twofold.

but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

In the day of prosperity be happy,
But in the day of adversity consider—
God has made the one as well as the other
So that man will not discover anything that will be after him.

The heart knows its own bitterness,
And a stranger does not share its joy.

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s household.”

“Because he who is blessed in the earth
Will be blessed by the God of truth;
And he who swears in the earth
Will swear by the God of truth;
Because the former troubles are forgotten,
And because they are hidden from My sight!

He who returns evil for good,
Evil will not depart from his house.

casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.

Moreover David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for all the people were embittered, each one because of his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

O My people! Their oppressors are children,
And women rule over them.
O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray
And confuse the direction of your paths.

The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had 14,000 sheep and 6,000 camels and 1,000 yoke of oxen and 1,000 female donkeys.

who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and attack me and I will be destroyed, I and my household.”

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts?

I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,
My God, in whom I trust!”

A false witness who utters lies,
And one who spreads strife among brothers.

“You look for much, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of hosts, “Because of My house which lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.

Like one who takes a dog by the ears
Is he who passes by and meddles with strife not belonging to him.

He who profits illicitly troubles his own house,
But he who hates bribes will live.

There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek,

Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Behold now, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees; but the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”

For lack of wood the fire goes out,
And where there is no whisperer, contention quiets down.

leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.

And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”

You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”