What Does the Bible Say About Family First?

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 53 helpful votes

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.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, ...

Matthew 15:4-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Revelation 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

John 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

That the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

15 Bible Verses about Family First

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 15:4-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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15 Bible Verses about Family First

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1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 15:4-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:17 ESV / 1 helpful vote