A simple concordance search on families does not tell you everything you need to know about what the New Testament teaches about family life. But the New Testament presents many expressions of family life:
A spiritual father mentoring young men Timothy (2 Tim. 1:2), Titus (Tit. 1:4), Onesimus (Phm. 1:10)
A husband and a wife, Aquila and Priscilla, laboring together in the gospel and ministering to the great preacher Apollos (Acts 18:26), and risking their necks for the apostle Paul (Rom. 16:3-4).
A father crying out for his demonized son (Mark 9:24)
A father grieving over his dead daughter (Mark 5:22-23)
A woman caught in adultery (John 8:2-11)
A woman with five husbands (John 4:18)
A young man falling asleep during a long meeting, falling out a window to his death and then brought back to life (Acts 20:9-12)
Children being converted in households at the preaching of the apostles – Philippian Jailer (Acts 16:31) and Cornelius (Acts 10:24, 44)
Brothers seeking to follow the Lord Jesus – Nathanael (John 1:45-50)
The family of Jesus and their attitudes toward Him (Matt. 12:48-50)
Jesus giving his mother to be taken care of by John on the cross (John 19:26-27)
The 12 apostles came from only 6 families (Matt. 10:2-4)
A husband’s love in marriage is the picture of Christ’s love for the church (Eph. 5:25)
A submissive son does the will of his father, doing only what he sees him doing and hears him saying (John 5:30)
Older women teaching the younger women how to have godly family life (Tit. 2:4)
Children wanting to be hear the Lord Jesus (Mark 10:13-15)
Children shouting Hosanna (Matt. 21:15)
A child providing his bread and fish to feed 5,000 (John 6:10)
Children in prayer meetings (Acts 12:13)
A young man growing in stature and favor with God and man (Luke 2:52)
Children in the midst of controversy and danger – Paul’s nephew (Acts 23:16-17)
A son-in-law caring for his mother in law – Peter (Matt. 8:14)
Apostles preaching a gospel that is for "children’s children" (Acts 2:39)
Prayers that invoke God’s blessing on coming generations not yet born (Eph. 3:14-21)
A little girl raised from the dead – “talitha cumi”, which is little girl arise (Mark 5:41)
Families being torn asunder by the gospel (Matt. 10:34-39)
Two sisters treating Jesus differently, Martha and Mary (Luke 10:40-42)
Two sisters grieving over their beloved brother (John 11:21, 32)
A centurion appealing to Jesus for his a sick child (Matt. 8:5)
Brothers who are greedy and envious for their inheritance (Luke 12:13)
A widow making shawls for the other widows (Acts 16:14)
Divine commands to take care of the fatherless and the widow (Jas. 1:27)
A young girl, Rhoda, at a prayer meeting (Acts 12:13)
Commands for young men (Tit. 2:6-8) and older men (Tit. 2:2)
Commands for women (Tit. 2:3-5)
Divine commands for marriage (Eph. 5:22-33)
Divine commands for child discipline (Heb. 12:9)
A newly, married couple with child (Matt.1:18)
Genealogies (Matt. 1:1-16; Luke 3:23-38)
A betrothed man treating a woman wonderfully in spite of the talk of the town (Matt. 1:19)
A 12-year-old in temple collaborating with the older men (Luke 2:42-47)
The first miracle was performed at a wedding (John 2:11)
Many principles of behavior that are oil between the frictions, commands for how to treat one another. (Rom. 12:10; 13:8; 15:7; 1 John 2:10)
The Bible begins with a marriage and ends with a marriage (Gen. 2:22; Rev. 21:2)
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