Bible Verses about “family unity”
The Bible contains 30 verses about family unity across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“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.”
“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”
“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”
“And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
“¶ Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.”
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.”
“¶ Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.”
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”
“And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”
“But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”
“And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.”
“Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)”
“¶ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”
“That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.”
“One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;”
“¶ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.”
“For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call.”
“Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I [am] the LORD.”
“¶ A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to dwell together in unity!”
“The LORD [is] nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.”
“Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.”
“¶ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,”
“Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,”