Here are some great Bible verses about spending time with family. Family relationships are important, and should not be neglected. But it’s easy to get distracted and lose track of what’s most important in life. These Bible verses will remind you of the importance of spending quality time with your loved ones
In today’s modern world, it can be hard to connect with family members. We are so busy juggling a million tasks that we do not make enough time to spend with our loved ones. We have made it our mission to help you reconnect with your family by sharing Bible verses about spending time with them.
Family time is so important. You can read all about it in the Bible. This article contains a selection of verses about family, with a link to an online commentary for each one.
Bible Verses About Spending Time With Family
Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 5:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 5 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.
Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
Titus 2:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. …
Colossians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
John 15:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. …
Luke 16:19-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. …
Amos 1:1-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. And he said: “The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.” Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron. So I will send a fire upon the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad. I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir,” says the Lord. …
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 1 helpful vote
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.
Joshua 24:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Loving Bible Verses About Family
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1 John 4:20
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“Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.”
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Psalm 133:1
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“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!
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Ephesians 6:4
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“Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.”
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Exodus 20:12
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“Honor your father and mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.”
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Proverbs 17:17
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“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”
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Proverbs 17:6
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“Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.”
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Matthew 19:19
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“Honor your father and mother.”
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Proverbs 10:1
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“A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.”
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Colossians 3:13
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“Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.”
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Proverbs 22:6
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“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”
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Psalm 127:3-5
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“Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.”
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Colossians 3:20
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“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.”
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Luke 18:16
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“But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.’ “
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Matthew 5:9
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“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
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3 John 1:4
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“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”
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Galatians 6:2
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“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.”
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Matthew 18:20
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“For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
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Hebrews 10:24-25
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“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another.”
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1 Peter 4:8-11
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“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.”
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Ephesians 4:2-3
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“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.”
