Bible Verses About Family & Marriage
God’s Word speaks to the home: to parents raising children, to husbands and wives, and to the households that serve Him together. These verses are about loyal love, unity, patience with one another and building a home on the Lord.
14 verses about family and marriage (KJV)
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Guided journeys on family and marriage
Go deeper one day at a time: each day is a passage, a reflection, a question and a prayer.
Parenting with Grace
7 days for parents and caregivers
- Day 1: Unless the Lord builds — Psalms 127:1-5“Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up…”
- Day 2: Faith woven into everyday life — Deuteronomy 6:4-9“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I…”
- Day 3: Let the children come — Mark 10:13-16“And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto…”
- Day 4: Do not provoke them — Ephesians 6:1-4“Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou…”
- Day 5: A faith passed down — 2 Timothy 1:3-7“I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day; Greatly desiring to see thee…”
- Day 6: Entrusting our children to God — 1 Samuel 1:24-28“And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh…”
- Day 7: Gently led — Isaiah 40:9-11“O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say…”
Marriage: Love That Lasts
7 days on love, faithfulness and partnership
- Day 1: Not good to be alone — Genesis 2:18-25“And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and…”
- Day 2: Love strong as death — Song of Solomon 8:6-7“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most…”
- Day 3: Love that gives itself — Ephesians 5:21-28“Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as…”
- Day 4: A threefold cord — Ecclesiastes 4:9-12“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he…”
- Day 5: Dwelling with understanding — 1 Peter 3:7-9“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your…”
- Day 6: Honouring one another — Romans 12:9-13“Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one…”
- Day 7: Because he first loved us — 1 John 4:16-19“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we…”
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Scripture text: King James Version (public domain).