Bible Verses About Family Formation

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

For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with 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 shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

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

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.

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

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

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

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

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

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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

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

Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

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

For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

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

Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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.

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

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