Bible Verses About Family Challenges

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

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.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

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

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.

There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

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

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:

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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

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

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

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

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

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.

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

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

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

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake,

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.