Bible Verses About Family Bonds

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

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

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.

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.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

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

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,

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

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

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

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.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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.

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

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

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;

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

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

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

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?

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

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.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

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

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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

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

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

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.

And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

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

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

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.

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.