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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 146:9
“Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.”
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Psalms 151:1
“This Psalm is a genuine one of David, though extra, composed when he fought in single combat with Goliath. I was small among my brothers, and youngest in my father’s house. I tended my father’s sheep.”
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Psalms 151:4
“He sent forth his angel and took me from my father’s sheep, and he anointed me with his anointing oil.”
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Proverbs 1:8
“My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:”
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Proverbs 3:12
“for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.”
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Proverbs 4:1
“Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;”
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Proverbs 4:3
“For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.”
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Proverbs 6:20
“My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.”
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Proverbs 10:1
“The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.”
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Proverbs 13:1
“A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.”
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Proverbs 15:5
“A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.”
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Proverbs 15:20
“A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.”
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Proverbs 17:6
“Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.”
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Proverbs 17:21
“He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.”
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Proverbs 17:25
“A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.”
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Proverbs 19:13
“A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.”
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Proverbs 19:14
“House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.”
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Proverbs 19:26
“He who robs his father and drives away his mother, is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.”
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Proverbs 20:20
“Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.”
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Proverbs 22:28
“Don’t move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.”
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