Bible Verses About Complex Relationships

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

For the body is not one member, but many.

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.