Bible Verses About Family Relationships

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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,

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.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

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

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

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

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?

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

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

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: