Bible Verses About Taking Care of Your Family
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for taking care of your family, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,076 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 Taking Care of Your Family
1 Timothy 5:81,528 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.
Genesis 2:24232 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Titus 2:3-5174 votes
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Philippians 4:6-7139 votes
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Psalms 34:17-20117 votes
The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
Titus 1:5-9101 votes
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
Philippians 4:1986 votes
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Romans 12:1983 votes
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Deuteronomy 28:1-6867 votes
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
1 Timothy 5:465 votes
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
John 14:1563 votes
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Malachi 2:1449 votes
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Proverbs 22:648 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Romans 12:1848 votes
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Luke 10:30-3745 votes
And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Isaiah 58:744 votes
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
1 Peter 3:744 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.
Psalms 1:1-643 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.
Titus 2:442 votes
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Hebrews 13:838 votes
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
1 John 3:17-1838 votes
But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
Matthew 5:23-2437 votes
Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
Romans 13:436 votes
For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
Luke 10:2733 votes
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
Galatians 6:1032 votes
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
What does the Bible say about taking care of your family?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 5:8 on the subject of taking care of your family. Across 4,076 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 2:24, Titus 2:3-5, Philippians 4:6-7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.