God created the family to be united, protecting and strengthening one another. A united family, guided by God, is an amazing blessing! Family ties are very strong.
God blesses the family of those who are faithful to him. Growing up in a family that loves and serves God is a great privilege. Parents should teach their children about God, and children should honor their parents. Everyone should help the weakest and most vulnerable members of the family. The family is the ideal place to reflect God's love.
Not all families are happy. Nobody is perfect and family members can hurt us. But with God's help, we can learn to forgive and build stronger families.
But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord ’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children— with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
Psalms 103:17-18
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Genesis 1:28
But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord .”
Joshua 24:15
Children are a heritage from the Lord , offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.
Psalms 127:3-5
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
Genesis 2:24
“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Mark 10:6-9
Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 9:9
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:33
“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
Exodus 20:12
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—
Ephesians 6:1-2
Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
Ephesians 6:4
Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
Proverbs 22:6
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
Proverbs 1:8-9
Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.
Proverbs 11:29
The greedy bring ruin to their households, but the one who hates bribes will live.
Proverbs 15:27
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.
1 Timothy 5:4
Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5:8
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 4:32
Put your outdoor work in order and get your fields ready; after that, build your house.
Proverbs 24:27
Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.
Proverbs 17:6