The Lord established the family structure and asked its members to live peacefully and joyfully. A family would be happy and everything will go well only when all the members will put God first.
Families who followed God’s word were referred to as happy families throughout the Old Testament. According to Jesus, he is the light of the world, and we need him to have light in our life.
We can understand how to act and what we should do as family members. We can have blessings from above in our families if we do what the Lord desires for us to do.
The following Bible verses will direct and assist us in making our family happy and joyous through God’s ways.
1 Peter 3:1(KJV) “Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;”
Hebrews 13:4(KJV) “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
1 Peter 3:7(KJV) “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”
Ephesians 5:25(KJV) “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
1 Corinthians 11:3(KJV) “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.”
Colossians 3:18(KJV) “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.”
Colossians 3:21(KJV) “Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.”
Deuteronomy 5:16(KJV) “Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
Colossians 3:20(KJV) “Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”
Genesis 2:24(KJV) “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Ephesians 6:1-3(KJV) “Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.”
Exodus 20:12(KJV) “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
Psalm 128:3(KJV) “Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.”
Ephesians 5:33(KJV) “Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”
2 Corinthians 9:8(KJV) “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.”
Ephesians 5:28(KJV) “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”
Romans 12:12(KJV) “Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;”
Colossians 3:19(KJV) “Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.”
Psalm 133:1(KJV) “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!”
Psalm 127:1(KJV) “xcept the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”
Acts 10:2(KJV) “A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.”
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.”
1 Timothy 5:8(KJV) “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.”
Romans 12:5(KJV) “So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.”
1 Timothy 3:4-5(KJV) “One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)”
Romans 12:9(KJV) “Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.”
Proverbs 11:29(KJV) “He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.”
Proverbs 10:1(KJV) “The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”
Proverbs 6:20(KJV) “My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.”
