Bible Verses About Family

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

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.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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.

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

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,

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

These things I command you, that ye love one another.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.

Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes ; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.