Bible on Family

A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.

And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,

His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord’s brother.

But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar, and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.

Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.

And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the LORD, were keepers of the entry.

And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.

In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.

And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.

And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter for us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.

The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.

And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.

And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.

And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.

And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.

And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.

So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.

And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Bethzur.

And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites.

And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.

And the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith.

And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.

And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These were his sons, heads of the fathers.

And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife’s name was Maachah:

But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: