43 Bible Verses about Family Love

Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another out of a pure heart fervently;

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

of whom every family in the heavens and on earth is named,

So then, as we have occasion, let us do good towards all, and specially towards those of the household of faith.

And if ye love those that love you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners love those that love them.

Shew honour to all, love the brotherhood, fear God, honour the king.

The friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's sons;

and they of his household shall be a man's enemies.

For my brethren and companions' sakes I will say, Peace be within thee!

as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:

And king David went in and sat before Jehovah, and said, Who am I, Lord Jehovah, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

But if any one does not provide for his own, and specially for those of his house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbeliever.

fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;

For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have cried aloud after thee. Believe them not, though they speak good words unto thee.

Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house:

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

Jehovah will add unto you more, unto you and unto your children.

And he said to them, Verily I say to you, There is no one who has left home, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

for from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided; three shall be divided against two, and two against three:

See what love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God. For this reason the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

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

But ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relations and friends, and they shall put to death some from among you,

At that time, saith Jehovah, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

But he answering said to them, My mother and my brethren are those who hear the word of God and do it.

Grace shall be with you, mercy, peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee, because he loveth thee and thy house, because he is well with thee, --

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

Believe ye not in a companion, put not confidence in a familiar friend: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

And to all these add love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, and the fruit of the womb a reward.

His seed shall be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

And if ye should salute your brethren only, what do ye extraordinary? Do not also the Gentiles the same?

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, in all the places whither I have driven those that remain, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

And I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not afraid of them: remember the Lord who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses.

conducting his own house well, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

But brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child; and children shall rise up against parents and shall put them to death;