18 Bible Verses about Hatred Between Relatives

And LORD said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not. Am I my brother's keeper?

And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers. And they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son.

For even thy brothers, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have cried aloud after thee. Believe them not, though they speak fair words to thee.

Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Edom, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity. And his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath

Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Tyre, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because they delivered up the whole people to Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant.

And ye will be betrayed even by parents, and kinsmen, and friends, and brothers. And some of you they will condemn to death.

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, who is as thine own soul, entices thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou have not known, thou, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, near to thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth, thou shall not consent to him, nor hearken to him. Neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shall thou spare, neither shall thou conceal him,read more.
but thou shall surely kill him. Thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw thee away from LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

And a brother will deliver up a brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and condemn them to death.

And brother will betray brother to death, and a father a child. And children will rise up against parents, and will condemn them to death.

For the son dishonors the father. The daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man's enemies are the men of his own house.

And a man's foes, are those of his own household.

Thus says LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house. And I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them to thy neighbor, and he shall lay with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [with] words, [but] they are gone.

A brother offended [is harder to be won] than a strong city, and [such] contentions are like the bars of a castle.

But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his fatherland, and among his kin, and in his house.

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

a FALSE witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.