God wants to use every family for His purpose. The Old Testament reveals God’s primary purpose for the family. God’s promises and teachings were handed down from one generation to the next generation through the family. God is telling His story of restoration and redemption through the family. For many Christian families this concept has become lost and muddled. American families get sidetracked when it comes to the things that really matter. The stuff we accumulate becomes the pursuit of our ambitions. What we give or do for our children takes priority over what we leave behind. Parents forget the importance of leaving a legacy.
Take the time to reflect on the following Bible verses. God wants to use every family for His purpose. The inheritance we accumulate and leave for our children is not as important as the personal legacy we leave in them.
Deuteronomy 6:1-3
These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
Mark 12:30
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
Ephesians 6:1-2
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”-which is the first commandment with a promise-
Ephesians 5:24
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
Ephesians 5:31-33
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery-but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
Proverbs 22:6
Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Psalm 127:3
Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him.
Proverbs 1:8
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Proverbs 13:24
He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him
Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father’s commands and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Psalm 103:17-18
But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children – with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
Colossians 3:12-14
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Joshua 24:15
But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”
Philippians 2:3-4
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Ephesians 4:29-32
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Matthew 6:20-21
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
2 Timothy 3:14-15
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Deuteronomy 4:29
But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Mark 12:30
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
Feel free to use these verses for a Bible study or short devotional. These passages were designed to encourage and strengthen family relationships. For more information on relationships in marriage and parenting click on the links below.
Bible Verses for Building Stronger Relationships
Bible Verses about Marriage
Bible Verses about Respect
Source:
Holy Bible, New International Version
