26 Bible Verses about Family Love

Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto fraternal affection undissembled, love each other intensely out of a pure heart:

He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named;

Well then, whilst we have opportunity, let us do good unto all men, but especially unto those who are of the household of faith.

And if ye love them that love you, what thanks are due to you? for even sinners love those who love them.

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

If any man cometh after me, and hateth not father, and mother, and wife and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And the enemies of a man shall be those of his own house.

In brotherly affection be tenderly attached to each other; in honour preferring one another:

But if any man provide not for his own relations, and especially for those more immediately of his own family, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may be united in sentiment, having the same love, of one soul, of one mind.

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

for if a man knoweth not how to order his own family, how shall he take proper care of the church of God?

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

And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, that there is no man who hath left family, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

for henceforth five shall be in one house, divided, three against two, and two against three.

BEHOLD, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God! therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

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

But ye shall be betrayed even by parents, and brethren, and relations, and friends; and some of you they shall put to death.

Then he answered and said to them, My mother and my brethren are they, who hear the word of God, and practise it.

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

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

But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

And if ye embrace your brethren only, what do ye extraordinary? do not even the publicans so?

presiding over his own family with propriety, having his children under subjection with all gravity of behaviour:

Then brother shall surrender brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.