Bible Verses About Family Responsibility

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

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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

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

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

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

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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

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

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

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

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

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.

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

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

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 mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

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

And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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

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.

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: