49 Bible Verses about Family Problems

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Proverbs 11:29

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

Mark 3:25

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

Ecclesiastes 5:11

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

Luke 12:13

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

Isaiah 65:23

“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.

Genesis 7:1

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.

John 9:3

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.

Proverbs 14:10

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

Genesis 41:51

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

Isaiah 65:16

“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!

Proverbs 17:13

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

1 Samuel 30:6

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.

Job 42:12

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.

Genesis 34:30

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.”

2 Samuel 21:1

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.”

1 Corinthians 6:2

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?

Haggai 1:9

“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.

Proverbs 26:17

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

2 Kings 2:19

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.”

Proverbs 26:20

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

John 9:2

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

Genesis 47:9

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.”

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