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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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Ruth 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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Proverbs 17:17

"A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity."

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Proverbs 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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Exodus 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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Psalms 127:3

"Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward."

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Psalms 127:1

"A Song of Ascents. By Solomon. Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain."

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Ephesians 6:1

"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."

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From 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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  1. 1 Timothy 5:1

    “Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;”

  2. 2 Timothy 1:2

    “to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.”

  3. 2 Timothy 1:3

    “I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day”

  4. Titus 1:4

    “to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.”

  5. Philemon 1:3

    “Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”

  6. Philemon 1:10

    “I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,”

  7. Hebrews 1:1

    “God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,”

  8. Hebrews 1:5

    “For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?””

  9. Hebrews 3:9

    “where your fathers tested me by proving me, and saw my deeds for forty years.”

  10. Hebrews 5:5

    “So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.””

  11. Hebrews 7:3

    “without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.”

  12. Hebrews 7:10

    “for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met him.”

  13. Hebrews 8:9

    “not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.”

  14. Hebrews 11:12

    “Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.”

  15. Hebrews 12:7

    “It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?”

  16. Hebrews 12:9

    “Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?”

  17. James 1:17

    “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.”

  18. James 1:27

    “Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

  19. James 2:21

    “Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?”

  20. James 3:9

    “With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.”

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.