Psalm 128:3

When God created humans, he designed us to live in families. Family relationships, therefore, are important to God. Even the church, the universal body of believers, is called the family of God. This collection of Bible verses about family will help you focus on the various relational aspects of a godly family unit.

Exodus 20:12
"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

1 Timothy 3:5
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?

Deuteronomy 5:16
"Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Psalm 128:3
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

Proverbs 1:8
Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

John 15:12-17
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Proverbs 15:20
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Matthew 15:4
For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'

Ephesians 6:1-2
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother" - which is the first commandment with a promise.

Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Psalm 103:17
But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children's children--

Joshua 24:15
But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."

Ephesians 3:14-15
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

Proverbs 11:29
He who brings trouble on his family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.

1 Peter 3:1
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

Proverbs 15:27
A greedy man brings trouble to his family, but he who hates bribes will live.

Proverbs 31:15-17
She gets up while it is still dark; she provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls. She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard. She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.

Ephesians 5:21
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Acts 16:31-34
And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family. Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.

Genesis 18:19
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”

1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Proverbs 18:19
A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle.

1 Timothy 3:12
Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

Matthew 18:19-22
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.

Proverbs 31:27
She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her