Bible Verses About Family Commitment

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

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

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 God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake,

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 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.

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

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

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

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,

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

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

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.

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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.

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

And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;

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

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.

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

And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

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.

The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

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

And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

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,

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

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

But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the Lord.

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

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.