Bible Verses About Family Concerns

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.

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

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for 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.

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

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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,

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

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

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

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

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

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

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

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

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

(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.

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.

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

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

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;

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

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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

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

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.