Bible Verses About Family Negotiations

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.

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

Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

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

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 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.

And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

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

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

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

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

And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother’s house: the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

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

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

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.

And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

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

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

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

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

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

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.

And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

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?

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

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

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