Bible Verses About Family Meetings

Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

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.

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.

Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.

And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?

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

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

Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord,

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

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

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.

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

Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

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.

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

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.

Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

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

And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

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

And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.