The best Bible verses for family for meditation include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for family for meditation, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose."Deuteronomy 15:20
"Each year you and your family are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose."Deuteronomy 15:20
"He is to share equally in their benefits, even though he has received money from the sale of family possessions."Deuteronomy 18:8
"Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers."Galatians 6:10
"Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers."Hebrews 2:11
"All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars."Isaiah 22:24
"Your brothers, your own family— even they have betrayed you; they have raised a loud cry against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you."Jeremiah 12:6
"“Go to the Recabite family and invite them to come to one of the side rooms of the house of the Lord and give them wine to drink.”"Jeremiah 35:2
"Then I set bowls full of wine and some cups before the men of the Recabite family and said to them, “Drink some wine.”"Jeremiah 35:5
"Does not the Scripture say that the Christ will come from David’s family and from Bethlehem, the town where David lived?”"John 7:42
"Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good-by to my family.”"Luke 9:61
"From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three."Luke 12:52
"When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”"Mark 3:21
A verse used for family for meditation works differently from one you read once. It gets returned to, repeated, and sat with — so it needs enough depth to reward a second and tenth reading, and enough clarity that you are not decoding it every time.
The 15 passages here hold up to repetition. Each is short enough to carry from memory and substantial enough that it does not wear out.
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The most-cited Bible verses for family for meditation are Deuteronomy 15:20, Deuteronomy 18:8, Deuteronomy 25:10. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to family for meditation across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for family for meditation, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.