QUOTES IN THE BIBLE ABOUT LOVING YOUR FAMILY

“Honor your father and your mother”

“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”

(Deuteronomy 6:6-7)

“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”

(Proverbs 17:17)

“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.”

“Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.”

(Proverbs 11:29)

“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”

(Ephesians 6:4)

“A man who does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

(1 Timothy 5:8)

“And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”

(Colossians 3:14)

“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”

“But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.”

(1 Corinthians 13:4-6)

“Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”

(Proverbs 23:22)

“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”

(Ephesians 4:31-32) QUOTES ABOUT FATHER WHO HAS PASSED AWAY

“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”

(Proverbs 22:6)

“A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.”

(Proverbs 10:1)

“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.”

(Proverbs 31:28)

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”

“For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; yes, they have called a multitude after you: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto you.”

(Jeremiah 12:6)

“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”

(Ephesians 4:2)

“But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

(1 Timothy 5:8)

“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!'”

“The righteous who walks in his integrity— blessed are his children after him!”

(Proverbs 20:7)

“But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”

(1 Timothy 5:8)

“And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.”

(Colossians 3:15)