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Bible Verses About Family
A key Bible verse about family is Joshua 24:15: “As for me and my household, we will serve our Father.” Scripture treats the home as the first place faith is lived, teaches parents to raise children with gentleness, calls every member to honor the others, and says our Father settles the lonely in a home. Below are the verses on the home, on raising children, on honoring one another and on our Father’s own family, each word for word in Father’s Heart Bible™ and linked into the chapter so you can read Psalm 127 free and hear it.
A home that serves our Father
Households are where faith is first lived out.
Joshua 24:15
But if serving our Father seems wrong to you, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve—the gods your ancestors served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. As for me and my household, we will serve our Father."
Read & listen to Joshua 24Psalm 127:3
Children are a heritage from our Father, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Read & listen to Psalm 127Psalm 127:1
Unless our Father builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless our Father watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
Read & listen to Psalm 127Psalm 133:1
Look how good and how pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!
Read & listen to Psalm 133Raising children
Instruction, example and gentleness at home.
Deuteronomy 6:6–7
And these words that I command you today are to be on your heart. Teach them diligently to your children, and talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Read & listen to Deuteronomy 6Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Read & listen to Proverbs 22Ephesians 6:4
Fathers, don't provoke your children to anger; raise them in the Lord's discipline and instruction.
Read & listen to Ephesians 6Psalm 128:3
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children like olive shoots around your table.
Read & listen to Psalm 128Honoring one another
Children, parents and spouses each have a part.
Ephesians 6:1–3
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise), "that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land."
Read & listen to Ephesians 6Colossians 3:18–19
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
Read & listen to Colossians 3Genesis 2:24
So a man leaves his father and mother, joins his wife, and they become one flesh.
Read & listen to Genesis 2Colossians 3:13–14
Put up with one another, forgiving whatever complaints you have against each other. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Read & listen to Colossians 3Our Father's family
He places the lonely in families and welcomes us as his children.
Psalm 68:6
Our Father settles the lonely in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
Read & listen to Psalm 68Ephesians 1:5
He predestined us to be his own sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will.
Read & listen to Ephesians 1Galatians 3:26
For in Christ Jesus you are all children of our Father through faith.
Read & listen to Galatians 31 John 3:1
See what kind of love our Father has given us, that we should be called children of our Father! And we are. The world doesn't know us because it didn't know him.
Read & listen to 1 John 3Unless our Father builds the house: Psalm 127
Psalm 127 is the short psalm of the home. Read or hear the chapter below, then follow it to the full psalm.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best Bible verse about family?
Joshua 24:15 ends, “As for me and my household, we will serve our Father.”
What does the Bible say about raising children?
Deuteronomy 6:6–7 says, “And these words that I command you today are to be on your heart. Teach them diligently to your children, and talk about them when you sit in your house and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”
What does the Bible say about the home?
Psalm 127:1 says, “Unless our Father builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless our Father watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.”
How should parents treat their children?
Ephesians 6:4 says, “Fathers, don't provoke your children to anger; raise them in the Lord's discipline and instruction.”
Does our Father care about people who feel alone?
Yes. Psalm 68:6 says, “Our Father settles the lonely in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.”
Keep going: read Deuteronomy 6 or Ephesians 6, browse more Bible verses by topic, see the verses on friendship, the verses on love or the Bible verses about marriage.
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