29 Bible Verses about Love And Family

Any one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and any one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

Now that, through your obedience to the truth, you have purified your souls for cherishing sincere brotherly love, you must love another heartily and fervently.

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

Honour every one. Love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the Emperor.

and as for you, may the Lord teach you to love one another and all men, with a growing and a glowing love, resembling our love for you.

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

So then, as we have opportunity, let us labour for the good of all, and especially of those who belong to the household of the faith.

from whom the whole family in Heaven and on earth derives its name,

But if a man makes no provision for those dependent on him, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is behaving worse than an unbeliever.

For if you love only those who love you, what reward have you earned? Do not even the tax-gatherers do that?

(If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how shall he have the Church of God given into his care?)

and a man's own family will be his foes.

"I solemnly tell you," replied Jesus, "that there is no one who has left house or wife, or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of God's Kingdom,

As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.

because a husband is the Head of his wife as Christ also is the Head of the Church, being indeed the Saviour of this His Body.

The Elder to the elect lady and her children. Truly I love you all, and not I alone, but also all who know the truth,

united by mutual love, with harmony of feeling giving your minds to one and the same object.

We love because God first loved us.

"My mother and my brothers," He replied, "are these who hear God's Message and obey it."

so collectively we form one body in Christ, while individually we are linked to one another as its members.

The love of which I am speaking consists in our living in obedience to God's commands. God's command is that you should live in obedience to what you all heard from the very beginning.

For this reason, on bended knee I beseech the Father,

And over all these put on love, which is the perfect bond of union;

Let all that you do be done from motives of love.

but ruling his own household wisely and well, with children kept under control with true dignity.

If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

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

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

And if you salute only your near relatives, what praise is due to you? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?