Family Bible Verses About Love

Family is a cornerstone of love and support. The Bible offers timeless wisdom about the importance of love within families. Whether it’s the bond between spouses, the nurturing of children, or the respect and care for parents. Scripture provides beautiful reminders of how love is meant to be the foundation of all family relationships. In this blog post, we’ll explore Bible verses that highlight the significance of love in family life, offering encouragement and guidance for building strong, loving connections that honor God.

Family Bible Verses About Love

Ephesians 5:25 – Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 – Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Colossians 3:19 – Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

1 Peter 4:8 – Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

Ephesians 6:1-2 – Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise.

Proverbs 22:6 – Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

Colossians 3:14 – And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

1 John 4:7 – Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Timothy 5:8 – Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Proverbs 17:17 – A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

Ephesians 5:28 – In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Genesis 2:24 – That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Deuteronomy 6:6-7 – These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Proverbs 31:28 – Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.

Psalm 127:3-5 – Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.

1 Corinthians 11:11 – Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

Proverbs 1:8-9 – Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

Romans 12:10 – Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

1 John 3:18 – Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.

Exodus 20:12 – Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Matthew 19:19 – Honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.

Proverbs 11:29 – Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.

1 Corinthians 16:14 – Do everything in love.

John 13:34 – A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Titus 2:4 – Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children.

Psalm 103:17 – But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children.

Ephesians 5:33 – However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Galatians 5:13 – You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.

John 15:12 – My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.

1 John 4:19 – We love because he first loved us.

Proverbs 15:17 – Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.

Mark 10:6-9 – But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.

Romans 13:8 – Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.

Psalm 133:1 – How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!

Deuteronomy 5:16 – Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

1 Corinthians 13:13 – And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Colossians 3:21 – Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.

Malachi 2:15 – Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth.

Luke 10:27 – He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

1 John 4:21 – And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

Proverbs 6:20 – My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

Joshua 24:15 – But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.

1 John 4:12 – No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

Psalm 127:1 – Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain.

Hebrews 12:14 – Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

Proverbs 13:24 – Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.

1 Corinthians 7:3 – The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

1 Peter 3:7 – Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.

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