Bible Verses About Family Connections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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,

Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

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

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

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

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,

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

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;

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

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.

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

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

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.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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.

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

Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

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

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

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.