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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 26:24
“Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.””
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Genesis 27:6
“Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,”
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Genesis 27:9
“Go now to the flock, and get me from there two good young goats. I will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.”
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Genesis 27:10
“You shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you before his death.””
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Genesis 27:12
“What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.””
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Genesis 27:14
“He went, and got them, and brought them to his mother. His mother made savory food, such as his father loved.”
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Genesis 27:18
“He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?””
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Genesis 27:19
“Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.””
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Genesis 27:22
“Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.””
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Genesis 27:26
“His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.””
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Genesis 27:30
“As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.”
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Genesis 27:31
“He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.””
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Genesis 27:32
“Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.””
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Genesis 27:34
“When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.””
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Genesis 27:38
“Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.”
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Genesis 27:39
“Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.”
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Genesis 27:41
“Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.””
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Genesis 28:2
“Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.”
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Genesis 28:7
“and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.”
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Genesis 28:8
“Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.”
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