Bible Verses About Family Duty

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

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

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

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

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.

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

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,

So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

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