49 Bible Verses about Family Problems

(For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)

And a man will be hated by those of his house.

The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

Do not give way to him but be strong in your faith, in the knowledge that your brothers who are in the world undergo the same troubles.

How is it, that if any one of you has a cause at law against another, he takes it before a Gentile judge and not before the saints?

If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.

And if there is division in a house, that house will come to destruction;

When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.

Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.

And one of the people said to him, Master, give an order to my brother to make division of the heritage with me.

For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

No trouble will come to upright men, but sinners will be full of evil.

Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.

Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.

And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.

But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

Jesus said in answer, It was not because of his sin, or because of his father's or mother's; it was so that the works of God might be seen openly in him.

In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

No one has knowledge of a man's grief but himself; and a strange person has no part in his joy.

And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house.

So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.

If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.

Putting all your troubles on him, for he takes care of you.

And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.

In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:

Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things?

Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.

A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by.

He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;

Now the men of the town said to Elisha, You see that the position of this town is good; but the water is bad, causing the young of the cattle to come to birth dead.

Without wood, the fire goes out; and where there is no secret talk, argument is ended.

While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.

And his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from birth?

And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.