Bible Verses about “family love”
The Bible contains 50 verses about family love across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.”
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
“Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.”
“I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.”
“In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”
“Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.”
“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.”
“Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.”
“Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.”
“For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.”
“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”
“but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.”
“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”
“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;”
“"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”
“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”
“bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.”
“Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.”
“Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:”
“We love him, because he first loved us.”
“It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.”
“So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.”
“so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.”
“Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.”
“Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.”
“When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.”
“for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.”
“My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:”
“for whom Yahweh loves, he reproves; even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.”
“I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."”
“Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.”
“Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.”
“My son, don't despise Yahweh's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:”
“She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.”
“for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.”
“Don't say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you.”
“My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:”
“Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.”
“Don't envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.”
“She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.”
“Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.”
“Don't be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:”