Bible Verses About Family Relations

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

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

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?

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