Bible on Family

And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,

Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;

Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.

Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.

Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.

Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.

And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.

And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:

So Joab, and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:

And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.

Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.

And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi:

And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:

Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:

Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.

Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers’ fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.

And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:

Of the sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites.