Bible Verses About Family Divided
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for family divided, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,051 votes, led by Luke 12:51-53. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Family Divided
Luke 12:51-53319 votes
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
1 Timothy 5:8253 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Matthew 10:35-37180 votes
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.
Titus 3:3-7165 votes
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Micah 7:6164 votes
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.
Luke 12:49-56126 votes
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Matthew 10:34106 votes
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 10:3589 votes
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.
Luke 12:49-5380 votes
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
1 Corinthians 13:4-780 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Luke 12:2574 votes
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
Luke 12:1-5972 votes
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luke 12:4960 votes
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Luke 12:656 votes
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
Exodus 20:1249 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
1 John 4:2048 votes
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
Genesis 25:2846 votes
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Luke 12:5146 votes
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
Ephesians 6:444 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Proverbs 22:641 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Daniel 1:1-2141 votes
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
Proverbs 15:2040 votes
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Colossians 3:1339 votes
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Joshua 24:1535 votes
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Proverbs 11:2932 votes
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
What does the Bible say about family divided?
Readers most often cite Luke 12:51-53 on the subject of family divided. Across 3,051 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 5:8, Matthew 10:35-37, Titus 3:3-7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.