Christian Devotional-Stories and Bible verses about the presence of God in our lives

Top 12 Bible Verses-Family

Top 12 Bible Verses-Family …

What does the Bible say about family?

Top 12 Bible verses-Family

How should we treat our family members?

Who exactly are our brothers and sisters?

Read these Top 12 Bible Verses-Family …

Mark 10:6-9

But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Proverbs 11:29

Whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart.

Joshua 24:15

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve… But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Ephesians 6:1-2

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Ephesians 5:33

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

1 Timothy 5:8

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.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

What is the nature of the love that Binds families together?

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Is our earthly family the only family to which we belong?  Or has God given us the gift of another family?

John 1:12

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Romans 8:17-19

And if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.

Top 12 Bible Verses-Family …

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