Bible Verses About Domestic Conflict

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.

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth 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 shall be they of his own household.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

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

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the Lord, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.

For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.

Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

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

If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose;

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

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

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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