Family Love

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

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

We love, because he first loved us.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

Let all that ye do be done in love.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father, — read the full passage →

And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

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, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →

beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

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

with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →

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

No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. — read the full passage →

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. — read the full passage →

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest witness of thyself; thy witness is not true.

For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

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

And 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 have not love, I am nothing.

And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love. — read the full passage →

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; — read the full passage →