49 Bible Verses about Family Problems

for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?

And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.

Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

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

Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?

But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.

Do not forsake your friend and 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 who is far away.

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

When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?

they are not put to shame in evil times; in the days of famine they have abundance.

Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;

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 inheritance with me."

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble.

They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the LORD, and their descendants with them.

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.

And the LORDrestored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife,

Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.

Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house."

So that he who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten and are hidden from my eyes.

If anyone returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.

casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

My people--infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths.

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

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may 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 stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household."

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death."

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?

I will say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."

a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.

Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.

Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.

There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,

Now the men of the city said to Elisha, "Behold, 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, quarreling ceases.

leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning."