26 Bible Verses about Family Love

Now that, by your obedience to the Truth, you have purified your lives, so that there is growing up among you a genuine brotherly affection, love one another earnestly with all your hearts;

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 all 'fatherhood' in Heaven and on earth derives its name--

Therefore, I say, as the opportunity occurs, let us treat every one with kindness, and especially members of the Household of the Faith.

If you love only those who love you, what thanks will be due to you? Why, even the outcast love those who love them!

Show honour to every one, Love the Brotherhood, 'revere God, honour the emperor.'

"If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes and his very life, he can be no disciple of mine.

A man's enemies will be the members of his own household.'

In brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in showing respect, set an example of deference to one another;

Any one who fails to provide for his own relations, and especially for those under his own roof, has disowned the Faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

I entreat you to make my happiness complete--Live together animated by the same spirit and in mutual love, one in heart, animated by one Spirit.

For this reason, then, I kneel before the Father--

If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how can he take charge of the Church of God?

May God, the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ give our Brothers peace, and love linked with faith.

"I tell you," he answered, "that there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, on account of the Kingdom of God,

For from this time, if there are five people in a house, they will be divided, three against two, and two against three.

Think what love the Father has shown us in allowing us to be called 'Children of God'; as indeed we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it has not learned to know him.

Jesus loved Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.

You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and relations and friends, and they will cause some of you to be put to death,

His reply, spoken to them all, was: "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's teaching and do what it bids."

Blessing, mercy, and peace will be ours--the gift of God, the Father, and of Jesus Christ, the Father's Son--in a life of truth and love.

And this is love--to live in obedience to the Father's commands. This is the Command as you learned from the first, to live in a spirit of love.

Over all these virtues put on love; for that is the girdle which makes all complete.

And, if you show courtesy to your brothers only, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do this!

he should be a man who rules his own household well, and whose children are kept under control and are well-behaved.

Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put to death;