49 Bible Verses about Protecting Your Family
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And I looked, and arose, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be ye not afraid of them: remember the Lord who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
But if any provideth not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
Yet he setteth the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out to you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only to these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.
And behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land: for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have declared to thee.
Who shall tell thee words, by which thou and all thy house shall be saved.
A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD shall build the house, they labor in vain that build it: except the LORD shall keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain.
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
In that day will the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places;
In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
For I, saith the LORD, will be to her a wall of fire on every side, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thy enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he may see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
Speak ye to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house:
But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and keep you from evil.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle will be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rear-ward.
And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
For I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretiship is sure.
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even loving-kindness and mercies.
I spoke to thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidest, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou hast not obeyed my voice.
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith, that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
Therefore I set in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
And he said to them, Verily I say to you, there is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children for the sake of the kingdom of God,
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
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