Bible Verses About Family Traditions

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

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

And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.

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

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

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

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: 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.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:

Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

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

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

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

And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

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.

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

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

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

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

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

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

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that 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.

But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the Lord.

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.

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.

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: