Bible Verses About Family Order

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.

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;

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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

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

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

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

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

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.

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

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

Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

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

And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

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

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

It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

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

Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)