Bible Verses about โtaking 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.
โBut 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
โYou fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.โ
โTrain up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.โ
โTherefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.โ
โChildren, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.โ
โ"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.โ
โ"Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:โ
โ"that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."โ
โBut 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
โShe arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.โ
โShe rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.โ
โShe considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.โ
โ(but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)โ
โone who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;โ
โMy little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.โ
โA good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.โ
โIf 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
โBut 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
โFor God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'โ
โBehold, 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
โhe shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.โ
โBut 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
โFor 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
โHe who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.โ
