When it comes to family, what better guidebook can you turn to for advice than the Bible?
No matter what your family size is; understanding God’s perspective on families is crucial to having a happy and healthy one.
From honoring our parents to loving one another, the scriptures provide us with important lessons on how to be better family members. Here are some of the best Bible verses about family.
Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Proverbs 12:4
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
Genesis 18:19
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.”
Acts 10:2
A devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God.
1 John 4:19
We love because he first loved us.
1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
Ephesians 3:14-15
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.
Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
2 Corinthians 6:18
And I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.
1 Timothy 5:8
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.
Proverbs 11:29
Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.
Malachi 2:16
“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Psalm 133:1
Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
1 Timothy 3:4
He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive.
Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 15:27
Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household, but he who hates bribes will live.
Proverbs 15:20
A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
Psalm 128:3
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.
Acts 18:8
Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
Acts 16:31-34
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus (Yahusha), and you will be saved, you and your household.” And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.
And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.
Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.
1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
John 15:12-17
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Joshua 24:15
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Proverbs 15:17
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
1 Timothy 3:5
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?
Proverbs 18:24
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Psalm 127:3-5
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
Proverbs 1:8
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
Psalm 103:17-18
But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.
Final Thoughts on Bible Verses About Family
God’s Word is filled with encouragement and hope when it comes to family relationships. He calls us to be loving, kind, and merciful towards one another.
That doesn’t mean we are always going to get along perfectly; however, it gives us the assurance that God will help us through difficult times in our families if we turn to Him.
May these Bible verses about family provide you with the guidance and strength needed to make your family life a source of joy and love.
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