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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. John 14:16

    “I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever, —”

  2. John 14:20

    “In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.”

  3. John 14:21

    “One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.””

  4. John 14:23

    “Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.”

  5. John 14:24

    “He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.”

  6. John 14:26

    “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.”

  7. John 14:28

    “You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.”

  8. John 14:31

    “But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.”

  9. John 15:1

    ““I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.”

  10. John 15:8

    ““In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.”

  11. John 15:9

    “Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.”

  12. John 15:10

    “If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.”

  13. John 15:15

    “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.”

  14. John 15:16

    “You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”

  15. John 15:23

    “He who hates me, hates my Father also.”

  16. John 15:24

    “If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now have they seen and also hated both me and my Father.”

  17. John 15:26

    ““When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.”

  18. John 16:3

    “They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.”

  19. John 16:10

    “about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;”

  20. John 16:15

    “All things whatever the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine, and will declare it to you.”

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.