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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. Leviticus 16:32

    “The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.”

  2. Leviticus 18:7

    ““‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.”

  3. Leviticus 18:8

    ““‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.”

  4. Leviticus 18:9

    ““‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your mother, whether born at home, or born abroad.”

  5. Leviticus 18:11

    ““‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister.”

  6. Leviticus 18:12

    ““‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister: she is your father’s near kinswoman.”

  7. Leviticus 18:14

    ““‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, you shall not approach his wife. She is your aunt.”

  8. Leviticus 19:3

    ““‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.”

  9. Leviticus 20:9

    ““‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.”

  10. Leviticus 20:11

    ““‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”

  11. Leviticus 20:17

    ““‘If a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity.”

  12. Leviticus 20:19

    ““‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister; for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity.”

  13. Leviticus 21:2

    “except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,”

  14. Leviticus 21:9

    ““‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.”

  15. Leviticus 21:11

    “He must not go in to any dead body, or defile himself for his father, or for his mother.”

  16. Leviticus 22:13

    “But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.”

  17. Leviticus 24:10

    “The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.”

  18. Leviticus 25:41

    “then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.”

  19. Leviticus 26:39

    “Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.”

  20. Leviticus 26:40

    ““‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,”

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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.