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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 15:12
“They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;”
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2 Chronicles 15:18
“He brought the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels into God’s house.”
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2 Chronicles 16:3
““Let there be a treaty between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you silver and gold. Go, break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.””
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2 Chronicles 16:13
“Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the forty-first year of his reign.”
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2 Chronicles 17:2
“He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.”
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2 Chronicles 17:3
“Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals,”
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2 Chronicles 17:4
“but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.”
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2 Chronicles 17:14
“This was the numbering of them according to their fathers’ houses: From Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valor;”
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2 Chronicles 19:4
“Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.”
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2 Chronicles 19:8
“Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed Levites and priests, and of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for controversies. They returned to Jerusalem.”
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2 Chronicles 20:6
“and he said, “Yahweh, the God of our fathers, aren’t you God in heaven? Aren’t you ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in your hand, so that no one is able to withstand you.”
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2 Chronicles 20:32
“He walked in the way of Asa his father, and didn’t turn aside from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes.”
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2 Chronicles 20:33
“However the high places were not taken away, and the people had still not set their hearts on the God of their fathers.”
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2 Chronicles 21:1
“Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.”
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2 Chronicles 21:3
“Their father gave them great gifts of silver, of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah; but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.”
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2 Chronicles 21:4
“Now when Jehoram had risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.”
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2 Chronicles 21:10
“So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his fathers.”
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2 Chronicles 21:12
“A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,”
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2 Chronicles 21:13
“but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute like Ahab’s house did, and also have slain your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than yourself,”
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2 Chronicles 21:19
“In process of time, at the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.”
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