Bible Verses About Family Division

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

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.

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

And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

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

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.

And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

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

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

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

And of the Levites were divisions in Judah, and in Benjamin.

There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.

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.

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 I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

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.

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 said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

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.

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.

And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.

Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

For the Lord hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the Lord: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the Lord.

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

So there was a division among the people because of him.

And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

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.

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

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the Lord: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,