49 Bible Verses about Family Problems

(For if a man knows not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

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

He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

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

Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

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

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

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

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: so what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Trust not in a friend, put not confidence in a companion: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.

And one of the crowd said unto him, Teacher, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with trouble.

They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the descendants of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.

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

And the LORD said unto Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing that will come after him.

The heart knows its own bitterness; and a stranger does not share its joy.

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

That he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

Whosoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Casting all your care upon him; for he cares for you.

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted of God.

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me to make me repulsive among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles:

Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.

You looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I did blow it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that is in ruins, and you run every man unto his own house.

He that passes by, and meddles with a quarrel not belonging to him, is like one that takes a dog by the ears.

He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; but he that hates bribes shall live.

Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray you, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees: but the water is bad, and the ground barren.

Where no wood is, there the fire goes out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceases.

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

And his disciples asked him, saying, Teacher, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

And you shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.