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Bible Verses about โ€œtaking care of familyโ€

The Bible contains 24 verses about taking care of family across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

1 Timothy 5:8
1400 votes

โ€œBut if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.โ€

Ephesians 6:4
1043 votes

โ€œYou fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.โ€

Proverbs 22:6
1017 votes

โ€œTrain up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.โ€

Genesis 2:24
810 votes

โ€œTherefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.โ€

Ephesians 6:1
573 votes

โ€œChildren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.โ€

Exodus 20:12
517 votes

โ€œ"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.โ€

Ephesians 6:2
517 votes

โ€œ"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:โ€

Ephesians 6:3
461 votes

โ€œ"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."โ€

1 John 3:17
315 votes

โ€œBut whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?โ€

Proverbs 31:17
295 votes

โ€œShe arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.โ€

Proverbs 31:15
271 votes

โ€œShe rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.โ€

Proverbs 31:16
269 votes

โ€œShe considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.โ€

1 Timothy 3:5
248 votes

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

1 Timothy 3:4
241 votes

โ€œone who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;โ€

1 John 3:18
199 votes

โ€œMy little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.โ€

Proverbs 13:22
175 votes

โ€œA good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.โ€

Joshua 24:15
141 votes

โ€œIf 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."โ€

1 Timothy 5:4
114 votes

โ€œBut if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.โ€

Matthew 15:4
88 votes

โ€œFor God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'โ€

2 Corinthians 12:14
63 votes

โ€œBehold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.โ€

Matthew 15:6
49 votes

โ€œhe shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.โ€

Matthew 15:5
46 votes

โ€œBut you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,"โ€

Genesis 18:19
29 votes

โ€œFor I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."โ€

Proverbs 11:29
28 votes

โ€œHe who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.โ€

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