Quotes About Family

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

Therefore this is what the LORD says: ëYour wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.í”

For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A manís enemies are the members of his own household.

Where is the lionsí lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?

The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.

the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives,

And if anyone still prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ëYou shall not remain alive, because you have spoken falsely in the name of the LORD.í When he prophesies, his father and mother who bore him will pierce him through.

And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”

Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers.

Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram.

Ram was the father of Amminadab, Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon.

Eliud was the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob,

and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and embraced Mary as his wife.

So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,

“Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and go to the land of Israel, for those seeking the Childís life are now dead.”

So Joseph got up, took the Child and His mother, and went to the land of Israel.

Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. Jesus called them,

When Jesus arrived at Peterís house, He saw Peterís mother-in-law sick in bed with a fever.

Another of His disciples requested, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

For I have come to turn ëa man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

A manís enemies will be the members of his own household.í