32 Bible Verses about Families
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God setting the only ones in the house, bringing forth the bound into prosperities, but those turning away dwelt in a dry land.
For also thy brethren and the house of thy father, they also acted faithlessly with thee; they also called after thee a fulness: thou shalt not believe in them for they will speak to thee good things.
(And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
And if any for his own, and chiefly for his own household provide not, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbelieving.
Wherefore then as we have time, let us work good to all, and chiefly to them of the household of faith.
He troubling his house shall inherit wind: and the foolish is servant to the wise of heart
Wherefore then are ye no more foreigners and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the holy, and the household of God;
Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity;
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
For from now shall five be in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
And they said, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
All the ends of the earth shall remember and shall turn back to Jehovah: and all the families of the nations shall worship before thee.
And I will praise them praising thee, and I will curse him cursing thee, and in thee shall all the families of the earth be praised.
And I shall see, and I shall rise up and say to the nobles and to the prefects and to the rest of the people, Ye shall not be afraid from their face: remember Jehovah great and terrible; and war for yourselves, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.
For the time for judgment to have begun from the house of God: and if first from us, what the end of them not believing the good tidings of God?
And if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious to their own house, and to return recompenses to their progenitors: for this is good and acceptable before God.
You only did I know from all the families of the earth: for this I will review over you all your iniquities.
Honour all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
For be consecrating and they being consecrated all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.
Speak ye to all the assembly of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month and they shall take to them each a sheep, according to the house of the fathers; a sheep for a house.
And it was who will not come up of the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship to the king, Jehovah of armies, and upon them shall not be rain.
She will rise while yet night, and she will give food to her house, and a portion to her girls.
The little one shall be for a thousand, and the small for a strong nation: I Jehovah will hasten it in its time.
And Jehovah will say to Noah, Come thou, and all thy house into the ark, for thee I saw just to my face in this generation.
And Jesus said to them, That a prophet Is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in kinsmen, and in his house.
From Thematic Bible
Families » Should » Be duly regulated
Let the deacons be husbands of one wife, presiding well over the children and their own houses.
Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity; (And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Families » Should » Live in mutual forbearance
So shall ye say to Joseph, I pray thee now take away the trespass of thy brethren and their sin; for they did to thee evil: and at this time now take away upon the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph will weep in their speaking to him. And they will come and will fall down before him, and they will say, Behold, we are for servants to thee. And Joseph will say to them, Ye shall not fear, for I am for God. read more.
And you, ye even purposed evil against me; God purposed it for good, for the sake of doing as this day, to preserve alive much people. And now ye shall not fear: I will give you to eat, and your little ones. And he will comfort them, and will speak to their hearts.
Then Peter, having come to him, said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I let him go? Till seven times? And Jesus says to him, I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times seven.
Families » Should » Live in unity
Song of ascensions to David. Behold, how good and how pleasant the dwelling of brethren even together.
And he will send his brethren away, and they will go; and he will say to them, Ye shall not be angry in the way.
Families » Should » Worship God together
The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla, with the church at their house, greet you.
Families » Should » Be taught the scriptures
Only watch to thyself and watch thy soul greatly, lest thou. shalt forget the words which thine eyes saw, and lest they shall remove from thy heart all the days of thy life: and make them known to thy sons and to the sons of thy sons. The day thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, in Jehovah saying to me, Gather to me the people and I will cause them to hear my word, that they shall be taught to fear me all the days which they live upon the land; and they shall teach their sons.
Families » Should » Rejoice together before God
And give the silver for all which thy soul shall desire, in cattle and in sheep, and in wine, and in strong drink, and in all thy soul shall ask thee: and eat there before Jehovah thy God, and rejoice, thou, and thine house.
Families » Warning against departing from God
Lest there be among you man or woman, or family or tribe, whom his heart turn this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poverty and wormwood;
Families » Punishment of irreligious
Pour out thy wrath upon the nations which knew thee not, and upon the families that called not upon thy name: for they ate up Jacob and consumed him, and they will finish him, and they made desolate his dwelling.
Families » Good--exemplified » Jailor of philippi
And they said, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all in his house. And having taken them in that hour of the night, he washed out the blows; and was immersed, he and all his, immediately. read more.
And having brought them up to his house, he set a table before, and rejoiced with the entire household, having believed God.
Families » Good--exemplified » Abraham
For I know him, for that he will command his sons and his house after him; and they watched the way of Jehovah to do justice and judgment, for Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what he spake to him.
Families » Good--exemplified » David
And David turned back to bless his house. And Michal, Saul's daughter, will go forth to the meeting of David, and she will say, How honored the king of Israel this day who was uncovered this day to the eyes of the maids of his servants as one of the worthless uncovering was uncovered!
Families » Good--exemplified » Lois
Receiving the report of unfeigned faith in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
Families » Of saints blessed
Thy wife as a vine bearing fruit in the sides of thy house: thy sons as plants of olives round about thy table. Behold, that thus shall the man be praised fearing Jehovah. Jehovah shall bless thee from Zion: and look thou upon the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life. read more.
And see thou the sons to thy sons: peace upon Israel.
Families » Good--exemplified » Joshua
And if evil in your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served which are beyond the river, and whether the gods of the Amorite which ye dwelt in their land: and I and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
Families » Good--exemplified » jacob
And Jacob will say to his house, and to all which are with him, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and be cleansed and change your garments.
Families » Good--exemplified » Lazarus of bethany
And a certain Lazarus was sick, from Bethany, of the town of Mary And Martha her sister. (And Mary was she having anointed the Lord with perfumed oil, and wiped his feet with her hairs, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) Then sent the sisters to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. read more.
And Jesus having heard, said, This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that by it the Son of God be honoured. And Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
Families » Deceivers and liars should be removed from
He doing deceit shall not dwell in the midst of my house: he speaking falsehoods shall not be prepared before mine eyes.
Families » Good--exemplified » Lydia
And when she was immersed, and her house, she besought, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having come into my house, remain. And she forced us.
Families » Good--exemplified » Crispus
And Crispus, ruler of the synagogue, believed the Lord with his whole house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptised.
Topics on Families
Families, Examples Of
Genesis 18:19For I know him, for that he will command his sons and his house after him; and they watched the way of Jehovah to do justice and judgment, for Jehovah to bring upon Abraham what he spake to him.
Families, Nature Of
Psalm 128:3Thy wife as a vine bearing fruit in the sides of thy house: thy sons as plants of olives round about thy table.
Killing Whole Families
Genesis 32:11Take me away now from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I am afraid of him, lest he shall come and smite me, the mother upon the sons.