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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. Exodus 18:2

    “Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, received Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,”

  2. Exodus 18:4

    “The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.””

  3. Exodus 18:5

    “Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.”

  4. Exodus 18:6

    “He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, have come to you with your wife, and her two sons with her.””

  5. Exodus 18:7

    “Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.”

  6. Exodus 18:8

    “Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships that had come on them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them.”

  7. Exodus 18:12

    “Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God. Aaron came with all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.”

  8. Exodus 18:14

    “When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, “What is this thing that you do for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning to evening?””

  9. Exodus 18:15

    “Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.”

  10. Exodus 18:17

    “Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “The thing that you do is not good.”

  11. Exodus 18:24

    “So Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.”

  12. Exodus 18:27

    “Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went his way into his own land.”

  13. Exodus 20:5

    “you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,”

  14. Exodus 21:15

    ““Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.”

  15. Exodus 21:17

    ““Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.”

  16. Exodus 22:17

    “If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.”

  17. Exodus 22:22

    ““You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.”

  18. Exodus 22:24

    “and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.”

  19. Exodus 34:7

    “keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.””

  20. Exodus 40:15

    “You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest’s office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.””

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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.