Bible Verses About Sibling Conflict

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

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

A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

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.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

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

Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

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.

Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.

Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;

Until thy brother’s anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?

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

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