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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 33:19

    “He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.”

  2. Genesis 34:4

    “Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.””

  3. Genesis 34:6

    “Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to talk with him.”

  4. Genesis 34:11

    “Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.”

  5. Genesis 34:13

    “The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,”

  6. Genesis 34:19

    “The young man didn’t wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.”

  7. Genesis 35:18

    “As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.”

  8. Genesis 35:22

    “While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.”

  9. Genesis 35:27

    “Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.”

  10. Genesis 36:9

    “This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:”

  11. Genesis 36:24

    “These are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. This is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of Zibeon his father.”

  12. Genesis 36:43

    “chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.”

  13. Genesis 37:1

    “Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.”

  14. Genesis 37:2

    “This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.”

  15. Genesis 37:4

    “His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.”

  16. Genesis 37:10

    “He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?””

  17. Genesis 37:11

    “His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.”

  18. Genesis 37:12

    “His brothers went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.”

  19. Genesis 37:22

    “Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him” — that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.”

  20. Genesis 37:32

    “They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son’s coat or not.””

Frequently asked

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.