Bible Verses About Family Issues

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.

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

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

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

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:

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

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.

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

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

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

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.