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Bible Verses About Familial Relationships

This collection includes 50 passages about Familial Relationships. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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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.

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

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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.

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Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

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For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

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For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

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Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

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For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

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Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

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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?

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For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

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Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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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.

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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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Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

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And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

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Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

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And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

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And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

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Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

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None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.

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These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.

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Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

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And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

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Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

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Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

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Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

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As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

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And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

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There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

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Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.

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Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

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Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.

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And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

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It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.

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