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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 Chronicles 6:38
“if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name;”
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2 Chronicles 7:17
““As for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my ordinances;”
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2 Chronicles 7:18
“then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.’”
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2 Chronicles 7:22
“They shall answer, ‘Because they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and took other gods, worshiped them, and served them. Therefore he has brought all this evil on them.’””
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2 Chronicles 8:14
“He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate, for David the man of God had so commanded.”
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2 Chronicles 9:31
“Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in his father David’s city: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.”
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2 Chronicles 10:4
““Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make the grievous service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.””
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2 Chronicles 10:6
“King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?””
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2 Chronicles 10:9
“He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may give an answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’””
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2 Chronicles 10:10
“The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall tell the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us;’ thus you shall say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.”
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2 Chronicles 10:11
“Now whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’””
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2 Chronicles 10:14
“and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.””
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2 Chronicles 11:16
“After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.”
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2 Chronicles 11:21
“Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.”
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2 Chronicles 12:16
“Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city; and Abijah his son reigned in his place.”
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2 Chronicles 13:12
“Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.””
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2 Chronicles 13:18
“Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Yahweh, the God of their fathers.”
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2 Chronicles 13:21
“But Abijah grew mighty, and took for himself fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.”
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2 Chronicles 14:1
“So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days, the land was quiet ten years.”
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2 Chronicles 14:4
“and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to obey his law and command.”
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