43 Bible Verses about Family Love

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,

The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

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

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all [people], and especially to those who belong to the household of faith.

"And if you love those who love you, what kind of credit is [that] to you? For even sinners love those who love them!

Honor all [people], love the community of believers, fear God, honor the king.

The friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, {he cannot be} my disciple.

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother's sons,

And the enemies of a man [will be] the members of his household.

For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will say, "Peace [be] within you."

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,

Then King David went and sat before Yahweh and said, "Who [am] I, my lord Yahweh, and what [is] my house that you have brought me up to {this place}?

But if someone does not provide for his own [relatives], and especially the members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

complete my joy, so that {you are in agreement}, having the same love, united in spirit, {having one purpose}.

On account of this, I bend my knees before the Father,

and showing loyal love to thousands [of generations] of those loving me and of those keeping my commandments.

(but if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),

For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call {loudly} after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.

Hear, O daughter, and {discern} and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house.

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

May Yahweh give you increase, you and your children.

And he said to them, "Truly I say to you that there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children on account of the kingdom of God,

For from now on there will be five in one household, divided three against two and two against three.

See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

And you will be handed over even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put to death [some] of you.

"At that time," {declares} Yahweh, "I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they will be to me a people."

"You only have I {chosen} of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

But he answered [and] said to them, "These are my mother and my brothers--the ones who hear the word of God and do [it].

Grace, mercy, peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father in truth and love.

And then [if] it will happen [that] he says to you, '{I do not want to go out} from you,' because he loves you and your family, because it is good for him [to be] with you;

And this is love: that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it.

Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap.

And to all these [things] [add] love, which is [the] bond of perfection.

Look, children [are] the heritage of Yahweh; the fruit of the womb [is] a reward.

His {descendants} will be mighty in the land; [the] generation of [the] upright will be blessed.

And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing that is remarkable? Do not the Gentiles also do the same?

And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clan in all the remaining places where I have driven them away," {declares} Yahweh.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May those who love you be at ease.

And I looked, got up, and said to the nobles, prefects, and the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses."

managing his own household well, having children in submission with all dignity

"And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father [his] children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death,