Bible Verses About Providing for Family
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for providing for family, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,230 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 Providing for Family
1 Timothy 5:8433 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 6:479 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
1 Peter 3:778 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.
Proverbs 22:669 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Genesis 2:2462 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Exodus 20:1259 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Psalms 62:1253 votes
Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Colossians 3:1952 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Psalms 127:3-548 votes
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
1 Corinthians 11:342 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.
Proverbs 15:2036 votes
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Acts 10:235 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.
Joshua 24:1534 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 6:1-233 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Colossians 3:2030 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Psalms 128:328 votes
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Matthew 15:428 votes
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Ephesians 5:2528 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 6:1-428 votes
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Colossians 3:2128 votes
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
Proverbs 1:826 votes
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Galatians 3:2826 votes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 5:3326 votes
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Acts 16:3125 votes
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Ephesians 3:14-1525 votes
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
What does the Bible say about providing for family?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 5:8 on the subject of providing for family. Across 2,230 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ephesians 6:4, 1 Peter 3:7, Proverbs 22:6. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.