Bible Verses About Family Dynamics

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

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.

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

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

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

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

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

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

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

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

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.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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

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

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.

And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

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

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

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

For the body is not one member, but many.