Bible verses about family
Verses to pray over your home, your children and the people you love.
“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.”
Joshua 24:15
Unless the LORD builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
Psalm 127:1
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4
Bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do. Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
Colossians 3:13-14
See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
Psalm 133:1
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5:8
Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her…
Proverbs 31:28
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.”
Exodus 20:12
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; And 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.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7