Bible Verses about “family”

“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”

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

“Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.”

“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”

“As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.”

“Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.”

“"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”

“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

“Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.”

“(but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)”

“"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”

“You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”

“If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh."”

“No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.”

“You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.”

“"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.”

“My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.”

“Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.”

“For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,”

“from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,”