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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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Psalms 45:16
“Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.”
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Psalms 49:19
“he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.”
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Psalms 68:5
“A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.”
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Psalms 72:17
“His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.”
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Psalms 78:3
“Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.”
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Psalms 78:5
“For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;”
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Psalms 78:8
“and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.”
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Psalms 78:12
“He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.”
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Psalms 78:57
“but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.”
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Psalms 79:8
“Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.”
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Psalms 82:3
““Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.”
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Psalms 89:26
“He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’”
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Psalms 94:6
“They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.”
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Psalms 95:9
“when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.”
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Psalms 103:13
“Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.”
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Psalms 106:6
“We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.”
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Psalms 106:7
“Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.”
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Psalms 109:9
“Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”
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Psalms 109:12
“Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.”
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Psalms 109:14
“Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.”
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