100 Bible Verses about Familyhttps

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 300 helpful votes

“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 ESV / 273 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 261 helpful votes

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.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 207 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 200 helpful votes

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 133:1 ESV / 188 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 184 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. 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! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 179 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 170 helpful votes

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 168 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Proverbs 15:20 ESV / 165 helpful votes

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 153 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 143 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Ephesians 3:14-15 ESV / 136 helpful votes

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

Proverbs 11:29 ESV / 134 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 120 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:19 ESV / 118 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

1 Timothy 3:4 ESV / 118 helpful votes

He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,

Acts 10:2 ESV / 115 helpful votes

A devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 ESV / 107 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Psalm 128:3 ESV / 106 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 102 helpful votes

For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?

Matthew 15:4 ESV / 101 helpful votes

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

Psalm 103:17 ESV / 99 helpful votes

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 95 helpful votes

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Colossians 3:19 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Psalm 103:17-18 ESV / 91 helpful votes

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 90 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Genesis 18:19 ESV / 88 helpful votes

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.”

Proverbs 15:27 ESV / 86 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 85 helpful votes

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 83 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 82 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 81 helpful votes

“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Ephesians 6:1-2 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 77 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

John 15:12-17 ESV / 77 helpful votes

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. ...

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 76 helpful votes

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 12:4 ESV / 76 helpful votes

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Acts 16:31-34 ESV / 75 helpful votes

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family. Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.

Acts 16:31 ESV / 74 helpful votes

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 73 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

1 John 4:20 ESV / 69 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Proverbs 18:24 ESV / 66 helpful votes

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 64 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Luke 11:13 ESV / 63 helpful votes

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Proverbs 23:15 ESV / 61 helpful votes

My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.

1 Kings 8:57 ESV / 60 helpful votes

The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us,

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Proverbs 23:24 ESV / 58 helpful votes

The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Proverbs 31:15-17 ESV / 57 helpful votes

She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens. She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Proverbs 27:10 ESV / 55 helpful votes

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother who is far away.

Colossians 3:21 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

Ephesians 1:5 ESV / 54 helpful votes

He predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,

Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 54 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 52 helpful votes

“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Psalm 27:10 ESV / 50 helpful votes

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.

Acts 18:8 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Matthew 19:18-19 ESV / 45 helpful votes

He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Genesis 28:14 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 2:19 ESV / 44 helpful votes

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

Proverbs 31:15 ESV / 44 helpful votes

She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 8:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

2 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 41 helpful votes

I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.

Proverbs 14:1 ESV / 40 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Romans 12:5 ESV / 39 helpful votes

So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Isaiah 49:15-16 ESV / 39 helpful votes

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

2 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Mark 10:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes

What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

1 Timothy 3:12 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Galatians 6:10 ESV / 32 helpful votes

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, ...

Psalm 68:6 ESV / 31 helpful votes

God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

Romans 12:17 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.

John 3:2 ESV / 30 helpful votes

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Ephesians 6:1 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Proverbs 13:22 ESV / 29 helpful votes

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 28 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

1 John 3:2-3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 27 helpful votes

She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Romans 12:10 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Acts 16:31-32 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.

Proverbs 6:1-20:30 ESV / 26 helpful votes

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. ...

Psalm 128:3-4 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord.

John 3:2-3 ESV / 24 helpful votes

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Matthew 19:2 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

Proverbs 17:1-28 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife. A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully and will share the inheritance as one of the brothers. The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts. An evildoer listens to wicked lips, and a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue. Whoever mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished. ...

Proverbs 10:1-11:31 ESV / 24 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother. Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked. A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame. ...

Psalm 127:1-5 ESV / 24 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. 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! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

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