Bible Verses About Complicated 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.

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

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

For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

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;

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

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

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

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.

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

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

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

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

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

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

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

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:

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

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

But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.