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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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2 Kings 24:6
“So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.”
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2 Kings 24:9
“He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his father had done.”
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2 Kings 24:17
“The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his place, and changed his name to Zedekiah.”
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1 Chronicles 1:10
“Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.”
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1 Chronicles 1:11
“Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,”
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1 Chronicles 1:13
“Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth,”
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1 Chronicles 1:18
“Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber.”
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1 Chronicles 1:20
“Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,”
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1 Chronicles 1:34
“Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.”
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1 Chronicles 2:10
“Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;”
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1 Chronicles 2:11
“and Nahshon became the father of Salma, and Salma became the father of Boaz,”
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1 Chronicles 2:12
“and Boaz became the father of Obed, and Obed became the father of Jesse;”
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1 Chronicles 2:13
“and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,”
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1 Chronicles 2:17
“Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.”
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1 Chronicles 2:18
“Caleb the son of Hezron became the father of children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.”
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1 Chronicles 2:20
“Hur became the father of Uri, and Uri became the father of Bezalel.”
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1 Chronicles 2:21
“Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.”
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1 Chronicles 2:22
“Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.”
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1 Chronicles 2:23
“Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.”
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1 Chronicles 2:24
“After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.”
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