What Does the Bible Say About Supporting Your Family?

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 4 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.

Acts 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Romans 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Ephesians 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Mark 7:8-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)— then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, ...

Isaiah 17:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins. The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid. The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Syria will be like the glory of the children of Israel, declares the Lord of hosts. And in that day the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean. And it shall be as when the reaper gathers standing grain and his arm harvests the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. ...

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

10 Bible Verses about Supporting Your Family

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Acts 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 7:8-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 17:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Acts 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 7:8-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 17:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes