Bible Verses About Family Relationships
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for family relationships, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 787 votes, led by 1 Timothy 5:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Family Relationships
1 Timothy 5:898 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Ephesians 6:1-448 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Psalms 127:3-542 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Exodus 20:1237 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Colossians 3:1334 votes
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
1 Peter 4:833 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Ephesians 4:2932 votes
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Romans 12:230 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Genesis 2:2429 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
James 2:829 votes
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
Psalms 1:1-627 votes
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Proverbs 22:626 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Joshua 24:1522 votes
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Ephesians 6:421 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Colossians 3:1921 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Ephesians 4:3220 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Colossians 3:2020 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Joshua 1:819 votes
This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
1 Corinthians 13:4-718 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Psalms 118:817 votes
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
Ephesians 6:1-314 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Ephesians 6:114 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Colossians 3:2113 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Matthew 7:21-2312 votes
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Ephesians 5:2112 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
What does the Bible say about family relationships?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 5:8 on the subject of family relationships. Across 787 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 6:1-4, Psalms 127:3-5, Exodus 20:12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.