26 Bible Verses about Family Love

Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.

"He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

from whom every fatherhood in heaven and earth is named,

So then, as we have opportunity, let is do good to all men, but especially to those who are of the household of faith.

"If you love those who love you what credit is it to you? Why even sinners love those who love them.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Reverence God. Honor the Emperor.

"If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

"and a man's own household will be his enemies.

As for brotherly love, be tenderly affectionate one to another, in honor preferring one another.

But if any one fails to provide for his own, and especially for his kindred, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

I entreat you to make my joy overflow by living in harmony; possessing the same love, and with one soul united in one purpose.

For this cause I bend my knees before the Father,

For if a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he take charge of a church of God?

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

And he said to them, "In Solemn truth I tell you that there is no one who, for the sake of the kingdom of God, has left houses, or wife, or brother, or parents, or children,

"From this time there will be five in one house divided, three against two and two against three;

Behold what manner of love the Father has given us in allowing us to be called "Children of God!" And that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us, because it did not know him.

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

"You will be betrayed even by parents or brothers and kinsfolk, and friends.

"My mother and brothers," he answered, "are those who listen to the word of God and obey it."

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

And this is love, that we should lead our lives according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should pass your life in love.

Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness.

"Even the tax-gatherers do that, do they not? And if you show courtesy to your brother only, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do that, do they not?

he should be a man who rules his own household well, and keeps his children ever under control and thoroughly well behaved.

"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against their parents and put them to death.