Bible Verses About Family Interactions

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.

For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

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.

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