Bible Verses About Desire for Family

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

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

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.