Bible Verses About Family
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for family, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 20,822 votes, led by Exodus 20:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Family
Exodus 20:12815 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Proverbs 22:6756 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
1 Timothy 5:8689 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.
Colossians 3:20609 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
1 Timothy 3:5520 votes
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Genesis 2:24502 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Joshua 24:15462 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.
Psalms 128:3450 votes
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Psalms 127:3-5413 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Ephesians 3:14-15382 votes
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
John 15:12-17349 votes
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Proverbs 6:20341 votes
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
1 Timothy 3:4306 votes
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
Proverbs 15:20267 votes
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Proverbs 11:29266 votes
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Psalms 133:1261 votes
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Acts 16:31-34260 votes
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
1 Peter 3:1250 votes
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Genesis 18:19221 votes
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Proverbs 1:8206 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
1 Corinthians 11:3206 votes
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
1 John 4:19206 votes
We love him, because he first loved us.
Psalms 103:17-18205 votes
But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
Acts 10:2192 votes
A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
1 Peter 3:7188 votes
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
What does the Bible say about family?
Readers most often cite Exodus 20:12 on the subject of family. Across 20,822 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 22:6, 1 Timothy 5:8, Colossians 3:20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.