step families

The 13 most-voted verses about step families, from 9 books, ranked by the OpenBible.info community.

Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Exodus 20:12 (BSB)

¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Exodus 20:12 (KJV)

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Exodus 20:12 (WEB)

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

Proverbs 22:6 (BSB)

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)

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

Proverbs 22:6 (WEB)

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4 (BSB)

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4 (KJV)

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:4 (WEB)

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.

Colossians 3:20 (BSB)

Children, obey [your] parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Colossians 3:20 (KJV)

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Colossians 3:20 (WEB)

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Genesis 2:24 (BSB)

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Genesis 2:24 (KJV)

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

Genesis 2:24 (WEB)

But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

Joshua 24:15 (BSB)

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.

Joshua 24:15 (KJV)

If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

Joshua 24:15 (WEB)

A song of ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!

Psalm 133:1 (BSB)

A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Psalm 133:1 (KJV)

A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Psalm 133:1 (WEB)

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

Proverbs 1:8 (BSB)

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 1:8 (KJV)

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching;

Proverbs 1:8 (WEB)

The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.

Proverbs 10:1 (BSB)

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 10:1 (KJV)

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Proverbs 10:1 (WEB)

A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 15:20 (BSB)

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.

Proverbs 15:20 (KJV)

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

Proverbs 15:20 (WEB)

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

Matthew 15:4 (BSB)

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

Matthew 15:4 (KJV)

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Matthew 15:4 (WEB)

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Ephesians 6:1 (BSB)

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Ephesians 6:1 (KJV)

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Ephesians 6:1 (WEB)

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timothy 5:8 (BSB)

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

1 Timothy 5:8 (KJV)

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

1 Timothy 5:8 (WEB)

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