49 Bible Verses about Protecting Your Family
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And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not afraid of them: remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A 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 sets he the poor on high from affliction, and makes their families like a flock.
Behold now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Have not you made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has on every side? you have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions are increased in the land.
And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you in all places wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land; for I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken to you of.
Who shall tell you words, by which you and all your house shall be saved.
[A song of ascents. Of Solomon.] Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain that build it: unless the LORD keeps the city, the watchman wakes, but in vain.
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
In that day shall 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 peaceful habitation, and in secure 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, says the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
For the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy: that he sees no unclean thing in you, and turns away from you.
Speak unto 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 shall establish you, and keep you from evil.
[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The LORD hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you;
Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall find nothing amiss.
Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your health shall spring forth speedily: and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
And that you 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 you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and contentions are like the bars of a castle.
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
He that is surety for a stranger shall suffer for it: and he that hates being surety is secure.
Trust not in a friend, put not confidence in a companion: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.
For thus says 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, says the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
I spoke unto you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you obeyed not my voice.
And he that strikes his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
For the LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates putting away: For one covers violence with his garment, says the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that you deal not treacherously.
And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place; and he shall become a glorious throne to his father's house.
Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people according to 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 unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that has left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,
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 clothing to put on,
There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with trouble.
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved, and your house.
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