18 Bible Verses about Hatred Between Relatives

Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" He said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?"

But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you."

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever.

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.

You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.

"If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,'which neither you nor your fathers have known, some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other, you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him.read more.
But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

for the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

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

Thus says the LORD, 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.

A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.

And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household."

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

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