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Bible Verses About Love and Family

This collection includes 50 passages about Love and Family. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;

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Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

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Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

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And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

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And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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These things I command you, that ye love one another.

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

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For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

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And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

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Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

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But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

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He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

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And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

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A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

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For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

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By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

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And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

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And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

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This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

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

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Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

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Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

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My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

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Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

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As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

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We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

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For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

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For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

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And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

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Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

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If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

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And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

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By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

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For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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