There are many bible verse on family importance and scriptures about family togetherness. 1 John 4:20 says, “Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.”
God has set up the family unit since creation. That is why even in the beginning, there was Adam, his wife Eve that God regarded as a suitable helper for Adam, and they had children.
And also in the new testament, Jesus was born into a family. When her fiancée Joseph heard that she was pregnant, he secretly planned to divorce her but Go stopped him (Matthew 1:19). Which meant that to God family togetherness was important.
Even with the birth of Moses, his life turned out the way that it did because of the role that his family played. It was his mother who hid him for 6 months. When she could no longer hide him, she put him in a basket along the reeds and the sister would watch him from a distance. (Exodus 2:3-4)
Even when he was older, it was his brother Aaron who became his spokesperson when he had to speak to Pharaoh (Exodus 4:14-16). And his sister Miriam would lead the women in praise when they left Egypt (Exodus 15:20).
Here are more bible verses on family importance and family togetherness.
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Bible Verse On Family Importance
1. Proverbs 17:17 – Family is born for time for adversity
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”
2. Exodus 20:12 – Honor your parents so you may live long
“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.”
3. Colossians 3:20 – Children should obey their parents
“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.”
4. Colossians 3:21 – Fathers should not provoke their children
“Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged”
5. Psalms 127:3 – Children are a heritage and reward from God
“Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.”
6. Ephesians 6:4 – Fathers should bring up children in training of God
“Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.”
7. Proverbs 17:6 – Grandchildren are a crown to the aged
“Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.”
8. Proverbs 10:1 – A wise child makes his parents proud
“A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.”
9. Proverbs 22:6 – Train children on the way they should go
“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”
10. Isaiah 66:13 – A mother comforts her child
“As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you”
11. Matthew 19:19 – Honor your parents
“honor your father and mother”
12. Proverbs 6:20 – Children should follow their parents teaching and instructions
“My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.”
13. Genesis 2:18 – A man needs a wife as his helper
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
14. Proverbs 18:22 – A wife brings favour from God
“He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord.”
15. 2 Timothy 1:5 – The faith gets passed on from one generation to the next
“I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.”
16. Hebrews 11:20 – Isaac blessed his children
“By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future”
17. Hebrews 11:21 – Jacob blessed his grandchildren
“By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons, and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.”
18. Genesis 25:21 – Isaac prayed for his wife when she struggled to conceive
“Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.”
19. John 11:1-3 – The sisters reported to Jesus when their brother was sick meaning they cared for him
Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. (This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.) So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Lord, the one you love is sick.”
20. Ruth 1:15-16 – Ruth chose to go with her mother in law Naomi
“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law is going back to her people and her gods. Go back with her.” But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.”
21. Esther 2:7 – Mordecai raised Esther his cousin after she lost her parents
“Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This young woman, who was also known as Esther, had a lovely figure and was beautiful. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.”
22. Esther 2:11 – Mordecai would often check up on Esther since he regarded her as his child
“Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.”
23. 2 Samuel 7:12 – God promised David that his own offspring will take over as king
“When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom.”
24. 1 Timothy 5:14 – It’s advisable for younger widows to marry
“So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.”
25. 1 Corinthians 7:2 – To reduce immorality
“But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.”
26. Proverbs 22:15 – The importance of disciplining children
“Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.”
27. Proverbs 31:1-3 – The advice Lemuel was given by his mother
The sayings of King Lemuel—an inspired utterance his mother taught him.
Listen, my son! Listen, son of my womb!
Listen, my son, the answer to my prayers!
Do not spend your strength on women,
your vigor on those who ruin kings.
28. Proverbs 31:21 – A woman covers her family
“When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.”
29. Matthew 18:15 – A brother or sister corrects
“If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.”
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30. Exodus 2:3-4 – The sister of Moses safeguarded him when his mother couldn’t hide him anymore
“But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.”
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31. Acts 10:2 – Cornelius and all his family believed in God
“He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly.”
32. Proverbs 11:29 – Don’t bring ruin to your family
“Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.”
33. 1 Corinthians 7:5 – married couples should always come together so Satan won’t tempt them
“Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”
34. Ephesians 5:22 – Wives submit to your husbands
“Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.”
35. Ephesians 5:25 – Husbands should show love to their wives
“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her”
36. Genesis 33:4 – Jacob and Esau reconciled
“But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.”
37. Genesis 45:9-11 – Joseph called his entire family to come stay with him in Egypt
“Now hurry back to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; don’t delay. You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have. I will provide for you there, because five years of famine are still to come. Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute.’”
38. Numbers 27:1-4 – The daughters of Zelophehad united and went before Moses
The daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. The names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah and Tirzah. They came forward and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders and the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said, “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among Korah’s followers, who banded together against the Lord, but he died for his own sin and left no sons. Why should our father’s name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father’s relatives.”
39. 1 Corinthians 1:10 – There should be no divisions among family but unity
“I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.”
40. John 17:20-23 – Jesus prayed that we may all become one
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.”
41. Acts 4:32 – They were one in heart and mind and shared everything they had
“All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.”
42. Psalms 133:1 – It’s pleasant when people live together in unity
“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!”
43. Joshua 24:15 – Me and my household we will serve the Lord
“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.”
44. Titus 2:4-5 – Women should love their husbands and children
“Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.”
45. 1 Peter 3:7 – Husbands should be considerate to their wives
“Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.”
46. Ephesians 4:3 – Make every effort to keep the unity
“Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.”
47. Colossians 3:14 – Put on love which binds them together in unity
“And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”
48. 1 Peter 3:8 – Be like-minded
“Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.”
49. Romans 12:16 – Live in harmony with one another
“Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.”
50. Hebrews 12:14 – Live in peace with everyone
“Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.”
Bible Verse About Family First
51. 1 John 4:20 – Whoever claims to love God but hates his family is a liar
“Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.”
52. 1 Timothy 5:8 – One should provide for members of his own household
“Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”
53. 1 Timothy 3:4-5 – Before one could manage the church they must manage their family well
“He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?)”
54. Ephesians 6:1-2 – Children should honour their parents
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—”
55. Ephesians 5:33 – Husbands should love their wives and wives respect their husbands
“However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
