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Bible Verses About Family

Bible verses on family — parents, children, household faith, blessings.

8 verses · curated by hand

Joshua 24:15

"If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”"

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Ruth 1:16

"Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God."

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Proverbs 17:17

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

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Proverbs 22:6

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

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Exodus 20:12

"“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you."

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Psalms 127:3

"Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward."

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Psalms 127:1

"A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain."

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Ephesians 6:1

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

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From the wider Bible

More verses about family in Scripture

1,669 passages mentioning “father” across WEB & KJV — beyond the curated set above.

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  1. Genesis 48:18

    “Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.””

  2. Genesis 48:19

    “His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.””

  3. Genesis 48:21

    “Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.”

  4. Genesis 49:2

    “Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob. Listen to Israel, your father.”

  5. Genesis 49:4

    “Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.”

  6. Genesis 49:8

    ““Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.”

  7. Genesis 49:25

    “even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.”

  8. Genesis 49:26

    “The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.”

  9. Genesis 49:28

    “All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing.”

  10. Genesis 49:29

    “He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,”

  11. Genesis 50:1

    “Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him.”

  12. Genesis 50:2

    “Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.”

  13. Genesis 50:5

    “‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’””

  14. Genesis 50:6

    “Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.””

  15. Genesis 50:7

    “Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,”

  16. Genesis 50:8

    “All the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.”

  17. Genesis 50:10

    “They came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and severe lamentation. He mourned for his father seven days.”

  18. Genesis 50:14

    “Joseph returned into Egypt — he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.”

  19. Genesis 50:15

    “When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.””

  20. Genesis 50:16

    “They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,”

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Questions about family in the Bible

What does the Bible say about family?
Ephesians 5-6 lays out family relationships — spouses, parents, children. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 calls parents to talk about God's commands "when you sit at home, when you walk, when you lie down, when you get up." Family is the first place faith is taught.
Which Bible verse is best for family?
Joshua 24:15 ("As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord"), Proverbs 22:6, and Psalm 127:1 are the three most-shared verses on household faith.
What does the Bible say about parents?
Proverbs 22:6 commands training a child in the right way. Ephesians 6:4 calls fathers not to provoke their children. Exodus 20:12 — the fifth commandment — calls children to honour their father and mother.