Bible Verses About Family
Scripture on the household — love under one roof, faith passed down, peace within the walls.
Family is God's first institution — the place love is practised daily, faith is handed on, and grace gets its most honest workout. These verses bless the household.
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.
The household declaration: as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
How good and how pleasant — unity under one roof.
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
The house rule that keeps every family whole: kind, tenderhearted, forgiving.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Faith taught diligently, in the house, by the way, lying down, rising up.
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Except the LORD build the house — the only foundation that holds.
Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Crowns and glory: the generations delighting in each other.
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Forbearing and forgiving — the daily grace of shared life.
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
The promise that reaches households: thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Every family is a work in progress under grace. Keep the house rules of kindness and forgiveness, keep the faith spoken aloud, and keep inviting the LORD to build.
