What the Scriptures say about Family
Psalms 128:3
3 Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.
II Timothy 1:5
5 Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.
I Timothy 3:4-5
4 Ruling his house well, having his children under control with all serious behaviour; 5 (For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)
I Timothy 3:2
2 The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;
I Timothy 3:12
12 Let Deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their houses well.
I Corinthians 16:19
19 The churches of Asia send their love to you. So do Aquila and Prisca, with the church which is in their house.
Acts 18:8
8 And Crispus, the ruler of the Synagogue, with all his family, had faith in the Lord; and a great number of the people of Corinth, hearing the word, had faith and were given baptism.
Acts 16:31-32
31 And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation. 32 And they gave the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.
Acts 10:2
2 A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.
