Bible Verses About Love and Family
Bible verses about Love and Family
Discover what the Bible says about love and family.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
Most Helpful Verses
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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.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Scripture Passages
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
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.
For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
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?
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
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.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
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?
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.
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
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.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.