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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 22:4
“He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Ahab’s house, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.”
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2 Chronicles 23:2
“They went around in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.”
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2 Chronicles 24:3
“Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.”
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2 Chronicles 24:18
“They abandoned the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and the idols, so wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.”
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2 Chronicles 24:22
“Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.””
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2 Chronicles 24:24
“For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment on Joash.”
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2 Chronicles 25:3
“Now when the kingdom was established to him, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king.”
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2 Chronicles 25:4
“But he didn’t put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.””
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2 Chronicles 25:5
“Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin. He counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found that there were three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go out to war, who could handle spear and shield.”
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2 Chronicles 25:28
“They brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in the City of Judah.”
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2 Chronicles 26:1
“All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.”
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2 Chronicles 26:2
“He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.”
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2 Chronicles 26:4
“He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.”
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2 Chronicles 26:12
“The whole number of the heads of fathers’ households, even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand six hundred.”
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2 Chronicles 26:23
“So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” Jotham his son reigned in his place.”
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2 Chronicles 27:2
“He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that his father Uzziah had done. However he didn’t enter into Yahweh’s temple. The people still acted corruptly.”
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2 Chronicles 27:9
“Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in David’s city; and Ahaz his son reigned in his place.”
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2 Chronicles 28:1
“Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, like David his father,”
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2 Chronicles 28:6
“For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.”
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2 Chronicles 28:9
“But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, “Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.”
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