Bible Verses About Family Dysfunction

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

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.

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

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,

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

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

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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

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;

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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;

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

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

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

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.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

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.

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.

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

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

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

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?