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Bible Verses About Family

Bible verses on family — parents, children, household faith, blessings.

8 verses · curated by hand

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More verses about family in Scripture

1,669 passages mentioning “father” across WEB & KJV — beyond the curated set above.

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  1. Job 22:9

    “You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.”

  2. Job 24:3

    “They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.”

  3. Job 24:9

    “There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,”

  4. Job 29:12

    “Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,”

  5. Job 29:16

    “I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn’t know, I searched out.”

  6. 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.”

  7. Job 31:17

    “or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it”

  8. 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);”

  9. Job 31:21

    “if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,”

  10. Job 34:36

    “I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.”

  11. Job 38:28

    “Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?”

  12. 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.”

  13. Psalms 2:7

    “I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.”

  14. 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.”

  15. Psalms 10:18

    “to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.”

  16. Psalms 22:4

    “Our fathers trusted in you. They trusted, and you delivered them.”

  17. Psalms 27:10

    “When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.”

  18. 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.”

  19. 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.”

  20. Psalms 45:10

    “Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.”

Frequently asked

Questions about family in the Bible

What does the Bible say about family?
Ephesians 5-6 lays out family relationships — spouses, parents, children. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 calls parents to talk about God's commands "when you sit at home, when you walk, when you lie down, when you get up." Family is the first place faith is taught.
Which Bible verse is best for family?
Joshua 24:15 ("As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord"), Proverbs 22:6, and Psalm 127:1 are the three most-shared verses on household faith.
What does the Bible say about parents?
Proverbs 22:6 commands training a child in the right way. Ephesians 6:4 calls fathers not to provoke their children. Exodus 20:12 — the fifth commandment — calls children to honour their father and mother.