Bible Verses About Family
Scriptures on honoring and nurturing your family.
The domestic church is the primary community established by God to teach us the profound reality of unconditional love. While our closest relationships are often imperfect and can even be a source of grief, they are also the very forge where our character is refined. By practicing mutual forgiveness and grace within the home, we demonstrate the heart of the Father to a watching world. Trust that He is using every family dynamic to shape you more into the image of His Son.
Key Passages
"And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word."
"Then said Jesus unto the twelve,Will ye also go away?"
"And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law."
"Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;"
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"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."
"Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward."
"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."
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
"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."
"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."
"Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord."
"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."
"Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table."
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right."
"What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
"¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."
"(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)"
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
"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:"
"Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart."
"Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever."
"Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month."
"And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,"
"But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD."
"¶ Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children’s children will I plead."
"And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?"
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