Bible Verses About Family Life

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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

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.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

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.

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.

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;

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

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,

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