18 Bible Verses about Hatred Between Relatives

The LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn't speak peaceably 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; even they have cried aloud after you: do not believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger raged continually, and he kept his wrath forever;

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant;

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:read more.
but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

"And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

"Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

For the son dishonors the father, 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 man's foes will be those of his own household.

"This is what the LORD says: '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 will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him. He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

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

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

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.