Bible Verses About Family Conflict

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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:

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.

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

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

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

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

Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

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

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

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

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

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

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

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

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

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;

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

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

The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

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.

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

And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;