Bible Verses About Family Roles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

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

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

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

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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;

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.

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

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

But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

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

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

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

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

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: