44 Bible Verses about Love And Family

The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart,

"And if you love those who love you, what kind of credit is [that] to you? For even sinners love those who love them!

Honor all [people], love the community of believers, fear God, honor the king.

and [may] the Lord [cause] you to increase and to abound in love for one another and for all, just as also we [do] for you,

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

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all [people], and especially to those who belong to the household of faith.

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

But if someone does not provide for his own [relatives], and especially the members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

And then [if] it will happen [that] he says to you, '{I do not want to go out} from you,' because he loves you and your family, because it is good for him [to be] with you;

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not the tax collectors also do the same?

May Yahweh give you increase, you and your children.

The friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity.

(but if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),

And I looked, got up, and said to the nobles, prefects, and the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses."

And the enemies of a man [will be] the members of his household.

And he said to them, "Truly I say to you that there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children on account of the kingdom of God,

Then King David went and sat before Yahweh and said, "Who [am] I, my lord Yahweh, and what [is] my house that you have brought me up to {this place}?

being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another [more highly] in honor,

For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will say, "Peace [be] within you."

because [the] husband is [the] head of the wife, as also Christ [is the] head of the church (he himself [being the] Savior of the body).

The elder, to the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth--and not I alone, but also all those who know the truth--

complete my joy, so that {you are in agreement}, having the same love, united in spirit, {having one purpose}.

For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call {loudly} after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.

We love, because he first loved us.

But he answered [and] said to them, "These are my mother and my brothers--the ones who hear the word of God and do [it].

in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ, and {individually} members of one another,

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

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother's sons,

"At that time," {declares} Yahweh, "I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they will be to me a people."

On account of this, I bend my knees before the Father,

The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the lovers of the rich are many.

"You only have I {chosen} of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

And to all these [things] [add] love, which is [the] bond of perfection.

All your [actions] must be done in love.

managing his own household well, having children in submission with all dignity

If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar, for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen is not able to love God whom he has not seen.

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

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

And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing that is remarkable? Do not the Gentiles also do the same?

Hear, O daughter, and {discern} and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house.

And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clan in all the remaining places where I have driven them away," {declares} Yahweh.

but showing loyal love to thousands of [those who] love me and of [those who] keep my commandments.

Rich and poor have [much] in common; Yahweh is the maker of all of them.