Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Awesome Bible Verses About Family

A Family is defined in different ways for different people. What does the Bible say about the topic of family? The Bible talks about family as a family of believers in Jesus Christ and also as related to children, marriage and parenting. Check out these selected Bible verses about family and comment with any of your favorite scriptures.

Awesome Bible Verses on Family

1 Timothy 5:8
If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Genesis 25:19-20 These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham fathered Isaac, and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. 

Proverbs 11:29
He who brings trouble on his family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.

1 Samuel 1:5, 19-20 But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the LORD had closed her womb …They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her. And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the LORD.” 

Deuteronomy 5:16
Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. 

Matthew 12:50
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.

Romans 8:22-23 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 

I hope these family Bible scriptures were helpful to you today.