18 Bible Verses about Hatred Between Relatives

Jehovah asked Cain: Where is your brother Abel? I do not know, he replied. Am I my brother's keeper?

Joseph's brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them. They hated Joseph and could not speak to him in a friendly way.

You sit and talk against your own brother. You slander your own mother's son.

Even your relatives, members of your own family, have betrayed you. They join in the attacks against you. Do not trust them, even though they speak friendly words.

Jehovah declared: For three and four transgressions of Edom, I will not withdraw punishment. He pursued his brother with the sword. He showed no compassion but was driven with anger and eternal wrath.

Jehovah continued: For the many transgressions of Tyre I will not withdraw punishment! They captured all the people and delivered them to Edom. They did not remember the brotherly covenant.

Parent, brothers and sisters and friends will turn you over and cause you to be put to death.

If your brother, your mother's son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your very best friend tries to secretly entice you, saying: 'Let us go and serve other gods, gods neither you nor your fathers have known, the gods of the people who are around you from one end of the earth to the other end.' Do not yield to him or listen to him. Your eye should not have pity on him. You should not spare or conceal him.read more.
You must kill him! Your hand should be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. Stone him to death because he has sought to draw you away from Jehovah your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

People will hand over their brothers to be put to death. Parents will oppose children and children will oppose parents, causing them to be put to death.

Brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

The son dishonors the father. The daughter rises up against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the men of his own house.

A man's enemies will be from his own family.

I swear to you that I will cause someone from your own family to bring trouble to you. You will see it when I take your wives from you and give them to another man. He will have intercourse with them in broad daylight.

The brothers of the poor hate him. His friends leave him. He pursues them with words but they do not listen!

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city. Their arguments are like the bars of a castle.

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

You who come to me may not be my disciple unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters and yourself.

A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brothers.