Bible Verses About Family Tension

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.

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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

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.

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:

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.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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.

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

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;

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

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

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 it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.

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

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

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

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

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;

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

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

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.