What Does the Bible Say About Stepparents?

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, ...

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Proverbs 8:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.

James 1:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“You shall not commit adultery.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

10 Bible Verses about Stepparents

Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 8:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 1:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Micah 6:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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10 Bible Verses about Stepparents

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Ephesians 4:31 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:1-24 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 8:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 1:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Micah 6:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes