Bible verses · Berean Standard Bible
Bible Verses About Family
Read Scripture about teaching children, honoring parents, and caring for family members.
Each selection is one verse. Open the full chapter to read who is speaking and what surrounds it.
Deuteronomy 6:7
And you shall teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
In context: Israel is told to pass on God's words through ordinary moments of household life.
Read the full chapter →Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
In context: Paul addresses children within a wider set of instructions for Christian households.
Read the full chapter →Colossians 3:21
Fathers, do not provoke your children, so they will not become discouraged.
In context: Paul cautions fathers against discouraging their children.
Read the full chapter →Psalm 127:3
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
In context: The psalm speaks of children as a gift rather than an achievement.
Read the full chapter →Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
In context: Honoring parents is the first of the Ten Commandments about human relationships, and it carries a promise.
Read the full chapter →Joshua 24:15
But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
In context: Near the end of his life, Joshua asks Israel to choose whom they will serve and declares his household's choice.
Read the full chapter →Ruth 1:16
But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
In context: Ruth, a widow from Moab, binds herself to her mother-in-law Naomi and to Naomi's God.
Read the full chapter →Psalm 103:13
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
In context: The psalm compares the Lord's compassion to a father's tenderness toward his children.
Read the full chapter →Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
In context: A proverb about early training; like other proverbs, it describes a general pattern rather than a guarantee.
Read the full chapter →Isaiah 66:13
As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”
In context: God compares His comfort for Jerusalem to a mother comforting her child.
Read the full chapter →Acts 16:31
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
In context: Paul and Silas answer a jailer's question, and the promise reaches his household, who are baptized that night.
Read the full chapter →1 Timothy 5:8
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
In context: In instructions about supporting widows, Paul treats care for one's own relatives as a matter of faith.
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