49 Bible Verses about Protecting Your Family
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When I saw their fear, I rose and spoke to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people: “Do not be afraid of them; remember the Lord who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives and your houses.”
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David, when Saul sent men and they watched the house in order to kill him.
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;
Set me securely on high away from those who rise up against me.
But He sets the needy securely on high away from affliction,
And makes his families like a flock.
Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.”
How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them;
They will not be ashamed
When they speak with their enemies in the gate.
Have You not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
and he will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.’
A Song of Ascents, of Solomon.
Unless the Lord builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the Lord guards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.
The wicked are overthrown and are no more,
But the house of the righteous will stand.
In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who is feeble among them in that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord before them.
Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation,
And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places;
In the fear of the Lord there is strong confidence,
And his children will have refuge.
so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
For I,’ declares the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”
Since the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy; and He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.
Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a lamb for each household.
But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble!
May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high!
“Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.
“You will know that your tent is secure,
For you will visit your abode and fear no loss.
“Then your light will break out like the dawn,
And your recovery will speedily spring forth;
And your righteousness will go before you;
The glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
and spare my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters, with all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.”
For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
But the Lord will take me up.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city,
And contentions are like the bars of a citadel.
So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.
He who is guarantor for a stranger will surely suffer for it,
But he who hates being a guarantor is secure.
Do not trust in a neighbor;
Do not have confidence in a friend.
From her who lies in your bosom
Guard your lips.
For thus says the Lord, “Do not enter a house of mourning, or go to lament or to console them; for I have withdrawn My peace from this people,” declares the Lord, “My lovingkindness and compassion.
“I spoke to you in your prosperity;
But you said, ‘I will not listen!’
This has been your practice from your youth,
That you have not obeyed My voice.
For I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with wrong,” says the Lord of hosts. “So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.”
“I will drive him like a peg in a firm place,
And he will become a throne of glory to his father’s house.
When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed.
then I stationed men in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, the exposed places, and I stationed the people in families with their swords, spears and bows.
A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.
And He said to them, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and garments to wear,
They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
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