Bible Verses About Family (33 Verses)

"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)"

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

"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."

"And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."

"Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers."

"Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward."

"Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;"

"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."

"And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up."

"Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"

"The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother."

"Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her."

"Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."

"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."

"Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table."

"For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,"

"This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one another."

"My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:"

"One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;"

"And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house."

"Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;"

"For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him."

"But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God."

"We love him, because he first loved us."

"But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them."

"A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway."

"He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live."

"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."

"For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously."

"The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:"

"A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."

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

"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."