43 Bible Verses about Family Love

You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

from whom every family in heaven and on the earth is named.

So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.

"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.

A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.

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

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

and a man's enemies will be the members of his household.

For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors I will say, "May there be peace in you!"

Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.

King David went in, sat before the Lord, and said, "Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point?

But if someone does not provide for his own, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

complete my joy and be of the same mind, by having the same love, being united in spirit, and having one purpose.

For this reason I kneel before the Father,

and showing covenant faithfulness to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

But if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for the church of God?

As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.

Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family!

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

May he increase your numbers, yours and your children's!

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God's kingdom

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 God's children -- and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

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

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

At that time I will be the God of all the clans of Israel and they will be my people. I, the Lord, affirm it!"

"I have chosen you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins."

But he replied to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."

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

However, if the servant says to you, "I do not want to leave you," because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.

Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Don't even share secrets with the one who lies in your arms!

And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed.

And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don't they?

However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived," says the Lord who rules over all.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May those who love her prosper!

When I had made an inspection, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, "Don't be afraid of them. Remember the great and awesome Lord, and fight on behalf of your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your families!"

He must manage his own household well and keep his children in control without losing his dignity.

"Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.