Bible Verses About Familial Responsibility

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

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

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.

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.

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.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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

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

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

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

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

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

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

The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

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

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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,

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

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.

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?

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.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.