Bible Verses About Family Struggles

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

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

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

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.

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 David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the Lord his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.

Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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

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

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

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

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.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

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

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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

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?

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.

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

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

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