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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 44:19
“My lord asked his servants, saying, ‘Have you a father, or a brother?’”
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Genesis 44:20
“We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’”
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Genesis 44:22
“We said to my lord, ‘The boy can’t leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.’”
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Genesis 44:24
“When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.”
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Genesis 44:25
“Our father said, ‘Go again, buy us a little food.’”
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Genesis 44:27
“Your servant, my father, said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons:”
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Genesis 44:30
“Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;”
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Genesis 44:31
“it will happen, when he sees that the boy is no more, that he will die. Your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant, our father, with sorrow to Sheol.”
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Genesis 44:32
“For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I don’t bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.’”
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Genesis 44:34
“For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me? — lest I see the evil that will come on my father.””
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Genesis 45:3
“Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.”
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Genesis 45:8
“So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.”
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Genesis 45:9
“Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait.”
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Genesis 45:13
“You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here.””
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Genesis 45:18
“Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’”
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Genesis 45:19
“Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.”
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Genesis 45:23
“He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.”
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Genesis 45:25
“They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.”
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Genesis 45:27
“They told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them. When he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob, their father, revived.”
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Genesis 46:1
“Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.”
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