40 Bible verses About Relationships From The Old Testament
40 Bible verses About Relationships From The Old Testament
1. Genesis 2:18
"The Lord God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.'"
2. Genesis 2:24
"That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh."
3. Genesis 4:1
"Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain."
4. Genesis 24:67
"Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death."
5. Genesis 29:20
"So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her."
6. Exodus 20:12
"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you."
7. Exodus 20:14
"You shall not commit adultery."
8. Exodus 20:17
"You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
9. Leviticus 19:18
"Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord."
10. Leviticus 19:32
"Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the Lord."
11. Deuteronomy 5:16
"Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you."
12. Deuteronomy 6:6-7
"These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up."
13. Deuteronomy 7:3-4
"Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you."
14. Deuteronomy 10:18
"He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing."
15. Deuteronomy 24:5
"If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married."
16. Joshua 24:15
"But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."
17. Judges 16:4
"Some time later, he fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah."
18. Ruth 1:16-17
"But Ruth replied, 'Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.'"
19. Ruth 4:13
"So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son."
20. 1 Samuel 1:27
"I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him."
21. 1 Samuel 18:1
"After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself."
22. 1 Samuel 20:17
"And Jonathan had David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself."
23. 2 Samuel 12:24
"Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and made love to her. She gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. The Lord loved him."
24. 2 Samuel 22:26
"To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless."
25. 1 Kings 3:14
"And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life."
26. 1 Kings 11:1-2
"King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, 'You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.' Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love."
27. 2 Kings 4:1
"The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, 'Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.'"
28. 2 Kings 22:2
"He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed completely the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left."
29. 1 Chronicles 16:11
"Look to the Lord and his strength; seek his face always."
30. 2 Chronicles 30:9
"If you return to the Lord, then your fellow Israelites and your children will be shown compassion by their captors and will return to this land, for the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him."
31. Ezra 10:4
"Rise up; this matter is in your hands. We will support you, so take courage and do it."
32. Nehemiah 4:14
"After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, 'Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.'"
33. Nehemiah 8:10
"Nehemiah said, 'Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.'"
34. Esther 4:14
"For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?"
35. Job 2:10
"He replied, 'You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?' In all this, Job did not sin in what he said."
36. Job 19:25-26
"I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God."
37. Job 42:10
"After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before."
38. Psalm 18:25
"To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless."
39. Psalm 27:10
"Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me."
40. Psalm 34:3
"Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together."
