Bible Verses about “stepfamilies”
The Bible contains 23 verses about stepfamilies across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
“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.”
“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
“For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.”
“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.”
“"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”
“But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.”
“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?)”
“one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;”
“My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:”
“and 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 up.”
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
“These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;”
“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."”
“A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.”
“For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'”
“A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.”
“He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.”
“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,”