Bible Quotes About Family: The Bible teaches that family relationships are meant to reflect the loving and sacrificial relationship between God and His people. In Genesis, God creates the first family with Adam and Eve, and commands them to be fruitful and multiply. Throughout the Old and New Testaments, there are many examples of family relationships, both positive and negative, including parents and children, siblings, spouses, and extended family members.
Bible Quotes and Verses About Family
- “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.” – Exodus 20:12
- “But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” – Joshua 24:15
- “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.” – Psalm 127:3
- “A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.” – Proverbs 10:1
- “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” – Proverbs 22:6
- “Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.” – Proverbs 11:29
- “The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!” – Proverbs 20:7
- “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” – Deuteronomy 6:6-7
- “And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” – Ephesians 6:4
- “But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” – 1 Timothy 5:8
- “But Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.'” – Matthew 19:14
- “Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.” – Proverbs 17:6
- “The Lord sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.” – Psalm 68:6
- “Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.” – Proverbs 1:8
- “The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.” – Proverbs 23:24
- “Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.” – Colossians 3:20
- “But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” – Joshua 24:15
- “For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.” – Genesis 18:19
- “I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.” – 1 Corinthians 1:10
