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Bible verses about family

From the commandment to honour father and mother to the counsel to bring children up in the way they should go, scripture speaks to every part of family life. These verses address parents, children and the home built on faith.

  1. As for me and my house

    Joshua 24:15

    And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
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  2. Children, obey your parents

    Ephesians 6:1-4

    Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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  3. Train up a child in the way he should go

    Proverbs 22:6

    Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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  4. Teach them diligently unto thy children

    Deuteronomy 6:6-7

    And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
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  5. Children are an heritage of the LORD

    Psalm 127:3

    Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
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  6. Provide for his own

    1 Timothy 5:8

    But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
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