Bible Verses About Relationship Conflicts

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

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.

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

But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

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.

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:

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

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

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

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

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.

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

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.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

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

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;

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

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

Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

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

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

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

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;