Bible Verses about “families fighting”
The Bible contains 45 verses about families fighting across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“Jesus saith unto him, ‹I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.›”
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil.”
“‹Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.›”
“Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”
“¶ ‹If ye love me, keep my commandments.›”
“¶ ‹Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.›”
“‹But the Comforter,› [which is] ‹the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.›”
“A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.”
“‹And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am,› [there] ‹ye may be also.›”
“‹In my Father's house are many mansions: if› [it were] ‹not› [so], ‹I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.›”
“‹If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do› [it].”
“‹And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.›”
“‹And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;›”
“‹And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all› [these things] ‹must come to pass, but the end is not yet.›”
“¶ ‹I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.›”
“¶ ‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater› [works] ‹than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.›”
“[Even] ‹the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.›”
“¶ I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men;”
“‹He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.›”
“‹If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.›”
“Jesus answered and said unto him, ‹If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.›”
“¶ ‹Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come› [again] ‹unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.›”
“¶ ‹These things have I spoken unto you, being› [yet] ‹present with you.›”
“Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?”
“‹At that day ye shall know that I› [am] ‹in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.›”
“For kings, and [for] all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.”
“¶ ‹And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.›”
“‹He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.›”
“Jesus saith unto him, ‹Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou› [then], ‹Shew us the Father?›”
“‹Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.›”
“‹And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.›”
“Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?”
“‹But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.›”
“‹Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.›”
“‹Believe me that I› [am] ‹in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.›”
“Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.”
“‹Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.›”
“Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.”
“¶ From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?”
“‹And a man's foes› [shall be] ‹they of his own household.›”
“‹He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.›”
“‹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.›”