Family Verses
God's design for family — love, honor, and commitment that reflect His covenant love.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, {and to be} a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD. {to keep...: Heb. to dwell in an house}
The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
The heaven, {even} the heavens, {are} the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
O LORD, truly I {am} thy servant; I {am} thy servant, {and} the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
The LORD {is} my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
[A Song of degrees.] In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
[A Song of degrees.] I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. {I will...: or, Shall I lift up mine eyes to the hills? whence should my help come?}
[A Song of degrees of David.] I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
[A Song of degrees.] Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.