Bible Verses About Family Strife

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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:

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.

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

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

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

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

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

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

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

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 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;

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

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.

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.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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,

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

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

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;

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

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