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100 Bible Verses about Family Conflict

Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 1,610 helpful votes

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 1,501 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 1,152 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Matthew 5:38-39 ESV / 995 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

John 14:26 ESV / 983 helpful votes

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

James 4:1-2 ESV / 979 helpful votes

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

Romans 12:19 ESV / 953 helpful votes

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”

Matthew 10:35-37 ESV / 894 helpful votes

For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

James 5:12 ESV / 850 helpful votes

But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 835 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 833 helpful votes

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 796 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Ephesians 4:26-27 ESV / 787 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and give no opportunity to the devil.

Ecclesiastes 3:8 ESV / 783 helpful votes

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 764 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Matthew 5:9 ESV / 697 helpful votes

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 693 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

James 1:19 ESV / 666 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 658 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Romans 12:18 ESV / 648 helpful votes

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

Ephesians 6:1-5 ESV / 647 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 643 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Matthew 6:26 ESV / 618 helpful votes

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Matthew 5:24 ESV / 609 helpful votes

Leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 590 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 585 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 568 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 551 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Matthew 5:23-24 ESV / 546 helpful votes

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 541 helpful votes

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

James 5:16 ESV / 529 helpful votes

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

James 1:19-20 ESV / 521 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Proverbs 16:28 ESV / 516 helpful votes

A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

John 14:6 ESV / 499 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 498 helpful votes

Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 498 helpful votes

A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 477 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 468 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 463 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 454 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 449 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 435 helpful votes

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 421 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Matthew 5:23 ESV / 416 helpful votes

So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

John 3:16 ESV / 410 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 409 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Hebrews 10:32 ESV / 393 helpful votes

But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 392 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 392 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Matthew 18:16 ESV / 388 helpful votes

But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.

Philippians 1:30 ESV / 387 helpful votes

Engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have.

John 8:32 ESV / 386 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Proverbs 25:26 ESV / 385 helpful votes

Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 384 helpful votes

If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

1 Thessalonians 2:2 ESV / 382 helpful votes

But though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict.

Colossians 2:1 ESV / 382 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face,

Matthew 15:4 ESV / 349 helpful votes

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’

Acts 5:29 ESV / 337 helpful votes

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 336 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 322 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 322 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 322 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Matthew 15:1-39 ESV / 322 helpful votes

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” ...

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 319 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

John 3:3 ESV / 319 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Hebrews 12:15 ESV / 308 helpful votes

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 308 helpful votes

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

James 4:6 ESV / 300 helpful votes

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 299 helpful votes

When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 290 helpful votes

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Matthew 5:25-26 ESV / 285 helpful votes

Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.

John 13:34 ESV / 284 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Proverbs 29:2 ESV / 283 helpful votes

When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 283 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

James 3:17-18 ESV / 282 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Psalm 46:1 ESV / 282 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 280 helpful votes

Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 280 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Deuteronomy 28:1-68 ESV / 280 helpful votes

“And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. ...

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 275 helpful votes

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...

Matthew 26:52-54 ESV / 273 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?”

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 271 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Luke 10:30-37 ESV / 269 helpful votes

Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. ...

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 264 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Romans 8:7 ESV / 254 helpful votes

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

Titus 2:4 ESV / 249 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 247 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

1 Corinthians 13:6 ESV / 246 helpful votes

It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

Romans 12:20 ESV / 243 helpful votes

To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 231 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

John 14:15 ESV / 231 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 230 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Romans 14:19 ESV / 218 helpful votes

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Romans 12:21 ESV / 216 helpful votes

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 186 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 173 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 166 helpful votes

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Psalm 27:10 ESV / 157 helpful votes

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 149 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Proverbs 18:13 ESV / 142 helpful votes

If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.

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