Top 25 Bible Verses About Family Love (NIV)

¹² "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

⁶ Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.

²⁰ Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

⁸ If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

⁵ (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)

²⁴ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

³ Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your sons will be like olive shoots around your table.

¹⁵ But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."

³ Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him. ⁴ Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. ⁵ Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate.

¹⁴ For this reason I kneel before the Father, ¹⁵ from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name.

¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. ¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.

⁴ He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him with proper respect.

²⁰ My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

²⁹ He who brings trouble on his family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.

³¹ They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved--you and your household." ³² Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. ³³ At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were baptized. ³⁴ The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God--he and his whole family.

²⁰ A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.

¹ Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives,

¹ How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!

¹⁹ For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him."

⁸ Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.

²⁷ A greedy man brings trouble to his family, but he who hates bribes will live.

² He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly.

⁴ For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'

¹⁶ "I hate divorce," says the LORD God of Israel, "and I hate a man's covering himself with violence as well as with his garment," says the LORD Almighty. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.

³ Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.