Scriptures about the home, family, and relationships among loved ones.
16 Scriptures · Father’s Blessing Bible
Joshua 24:15
But if it does not please you to serve the Lord, then choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord, [because He is holy].
Psalm 127:1
Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain; unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman keeps watch in vain.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Ephesians 6:1–4
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother”—this is the first commandment with a promise, 3 “so that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” 4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 6:6–7
6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart [and in your soul]. 7 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.
Psalm 133:1
How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!
1 Timothy 5:8
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.
Proverbs 14:1
The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
Proverbs 17:6
Children’s children are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their parents. [The faithful have a whole world of wealth, while the unfaithful have not a penny.]
Psalm 128:1–4
1 Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in His ways! 2 You will eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you will be blessed, and it will be well with you! 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table. 4 Thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord!
Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your mother, [so that it may go well with you and] so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Psalm 68:6
God sets the lonely in families; He leads prisoners out into freedom, but the rebellious remain in a sun-scorched land.
Colossians 3:18–21
18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they may not lose heart.
Proverbs 24:3–4
3 By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; 4 and by knowledge its rooms are filled with every precious and beautiful treasure.
Psalm 78:4–7
4 We will not hide them from their children, telling the coming generation about the glory of the Lord, His strength, and the wonders He has done. 5 He established a statute in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach their children, 6 so that the coming generation—children yet to be born—might know them and in turn tell their children, 7 so that they would put their hope in God, not forget the works of God, and keep His commandments,
