Family (Bible Verses)

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Genesis 2:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Acts 16:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

Genesis 45:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.

Ruth 3:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

Ephesians 5:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Proverbs 24:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

Luke 2:51 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Ruth 1:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

Psalms 127:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Genesis 46:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

Ruth 1:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

Genesis 9:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Luke 2:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)

John 19:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!

Genesis 43:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:

Luke 15:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

Ruth 3:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And she lay at his feet until the morning: and she rose up before one could know another. And he said, Let it not be known that a woman came into the floor.

Proverbs 28:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Ruth 1:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.

Exodus 4:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

Genesis 35:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Proverbs 31:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

John 19:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.

Genesis 45:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

1 Timothy 3:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Exodus 6:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.

Exodus 4:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

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The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD; and he slew him.

Genesis 17:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.

Genesis 33:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

Exodus 18:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;

Exodus 18:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:

Genesis 45:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.

Ruth 1:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.

2 Samuel 17:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.

Mark 3:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.

Genesis 49:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

Luke 2:39 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.

Ruth 4:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.

Genesis 42:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

Genesis 46:34 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That ye shall say, Thy servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

Leviticus 25:50 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

Genesis 47:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

Ruth 1:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the LORD deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

Genesis 29:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

Proverbs 11:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Genesis 47:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

Exodus 18:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

Genesis 5:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 24:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

Exodus 18:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:

1 Chronicles 2:49 KJV Bible Verse Image
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She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsa.

Genesis 46:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah: but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.

Luke 2:41 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

Genesis 24:61 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

Genesis 43:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the famine was sore in the land.

Luke 8:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.

Genesis 11:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

Numbers 36:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they said, The LORD commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.

Luke 2:43 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.

Genesis 24:67 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

Genesis 46:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Leviticus 25:49 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.

Genesis 17:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

1 Chronicles 4:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.

Genesis 46:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

Jeremiah 29:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Luke 15:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.

Genesis 47:28 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

2 Samuel 18:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

Genesis 26:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

1 Chronicles 4:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:

Bible Theme & Topic Recap: Family

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