Bible Verses About Family Matters

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

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,

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

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

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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

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,

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.

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

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

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,

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

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