Love & Relationships

Bible Verses About family

12 key scriptures

Explore what the Bible says about family. This collection of 12 key Scripture passages reveals God's wisdom and guidance on this important theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: Exodus 20:12
King James (KJV)Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

12 Key Scriptures

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Train: or, Catechise in: Heb. in his way
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. house: or, kindred
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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