Bible on Family

Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.

And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.

And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.

And the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:

And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

And now is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley to night in the threshingfloor.

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.

And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.

And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?

And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;

And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:

And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.

And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s stead in Jerusalem.

And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife.

Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?

And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.

And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?