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What are some Bible verses about family?

Bible verses about family
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Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timothy 3:5
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?

Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Psalm 128:3
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

Joshua 24:15
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Psalm 127:3
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

1 Timothy 3:4
He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive.

Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives.

Proverbs 11:29
Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

Psalm 127:4
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!

Genesis 18:19
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.

Psalm 133:1
Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

Proverbs 1:8
Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

Proverbs 15:27
Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.

Matthew 15:4
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’

Unless otherwise noted, all Bible verses are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

Special thanks to OpenBible.info for the data on the most well-known Bible verses.

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