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Key Bible Verses about Family
Important passages about family, each shown in full in your chosen Bible version with its setting and meaning.
26God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. 28God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Made in the image of God
On the sixth day God makes humanity, male and female, in his image and gives them care of the earth. Every human being shares this dignity.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. The two become one flesh
After the creation of the woman, the narrator explains why a man leaves his parents and is joined to his wife. Jesus quotes this verse when asked about divorce (Matthew…
4Hear, Israel: The LORD is our God. The LORD is one. 5You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. 6These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; 7and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. 9You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates. Hear, Israel: love the LORD your God
Known as the Shema. Moses calls Israel to love the one LORD with all their heart, soul and strength, and to talk about his words with their children at home…
If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” As for me and my house
At Shechem Joshua calls Israel to choose whom they will serve and declares that his household will serve the LORD. The people then renew the covenant.
16Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. 17Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.” Where you go, I will go
Ruth, a widow from Moab, refuses to leave her widowed mother-in-law Naomi and commits herself to Naomi's people and God. The vow is often read at weddings, but in the…
See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! How good it is to live together in unity
A short song of ascents by David celebrating the goodness of unity among God's people.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Train up a child in the way he should go
A saying about the lasting influence of early teaching.
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised. A woman who fears the LORD
From the poem about a woman of strength that closes Proverbs: charm and beauty pass, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these. Let the little children come to me
When the disciples turn children away, Jesus is indignant: the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. He takes them in his arms and blesses them.
“He arose and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran, fell on his neck, and kissed him. His father ran and embraced him
In the parable of the lost son, the father sees his son coming home while he is still far off, runs to him and welcomes him.
1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: 3“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.” Children, obey your parents
Paul addresses children directly, quoting the commandment to honour father and mother; the next verse tells fathers not to provoke their children (6:4).
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