Bible Verses about “parental love”

“‹For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.›”

“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”

“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”

“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”

“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”

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

“¶ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

“¶ Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.”

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,”

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.”

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

“And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.”

“But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”

“And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”

“For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.”

“¶ Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”

“¶ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”

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

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

“Children, obey [your] parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.”

“¶ He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”

“And above all these things [put on] charity, which is the bond of perfectness.”

“¶ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.”

“My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:”

“And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.”

“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:”

“Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him.”

“¶ Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.”

“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.”

“And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”

“And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.”

“And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.”

“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, [see that ye] love one another with a pure heart fervently:”

“The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, [saying], Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”

“¶ Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:”