Bible Verses About Sibling Rivalry

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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;

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.

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:

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

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

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.

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

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

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

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

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.

And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

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?

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

And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

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

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.

Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.

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.