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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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Job 22:9
“You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.”
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Job 24:3
“They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.”
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Job 24:9
“There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,”
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Job 29:12
“Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,”
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Job 29:16
“I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.”
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Job 30:1
““But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.”
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Job 31:17
“or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it”
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Job 31:18
“(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her I have guided from my mother’s womb);”
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Job 31:21
“if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,”
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Job 34:36
“I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.”
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Job 38:28
“Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?”
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Job 42:15
“In all the land were no women found so beautiful as the daughters of Job. Their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.”
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Psalms 2:7
“I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.”
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Psalms 10:14
“But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.”
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Psalms 10:18
“to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.”
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Psalms 22:4
“Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.”
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Psalms 27:10
“When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.”
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Psalms 39:12
““Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.”
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Psalms 44:1
“For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.”
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Psalms 45:10
“Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.”
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