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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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In chapterRuth 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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In chapterProverbs 17:17
"A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity."
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In chapterProverbs 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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In chapterExodus 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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In chapterPsalms 127:3
"Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward."
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In chapterFrom 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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Genesis 19:33
“They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she arose.”
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Genesis 19:34
“It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father’s family line. ””
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Genesis 19:35
“They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn’t know when she lay down, nor when she got up.”
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Genesis 19:36
“Thus both of Lot’s daughters were with child by their father.”
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Genesis 19:37
“The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites to this day.”
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Genesis 19:38
“The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.”
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Genesis 20:12
“Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.”
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Genesis 20:13
“When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’””
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Genesis 22:7
“Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?””
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Genesis 22:21
“Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,”
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Genesis 22:23
“Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.”
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Genesis 24:7
“Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring. He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.”
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Genesis 24:23
“and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to lodge in?””
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Genesis 24:38
“but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’”
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Genesis 24:40
“He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.”
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Genesis 25:3
“Jokshan became the father of Sheba, and Dedan. The sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim.”
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Genesis 25:19
“This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.”
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Genesis 26:3
“Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.”
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Genesis 26:15
“Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.”
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Genesis 26:18
“Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.”
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