40 Bible Verses about Family Love

And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.

From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and specially to those who are of the family of the faith.

If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them.

Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.

A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

And a man will be hated by those of his house.

Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;

Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?

If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.

Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind;

For this cause I go down on my knees before the Father,

And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.

(For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)

For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.

O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

May the Lord give you and your children still greater increase.

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,

For from this time, a family of five in one house will be on opposite sides, three against two and two against three.

See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

Now Jesus had love in his heart for Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.

At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.

You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.

But he said to them in answer, My mother and my brothers are those who have knowledge of the word of God and do it.

May grace, mercy, and peace be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in all true love.

But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you;

And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.

Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.

And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.

His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.

And if you say, Good day, to your brothers only, what do you do more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?

And death will be desired more than life by the rest of this evil family who are still living in all the places where I have sent them away, says the Lord of armies.

And after looking, I got up and said to the great ones and to the chiefs and to the rest of the people, Have no fear of them: keep in mind the Lord who is great and greatly to be feared, and take up arms for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives and your houses.

Ruling his house well, having his children under control with all serious behaviour;

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.