Bible Verses about “parental love”
The Bible contains 36 verses about parental love across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
“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;”
“You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.”
“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.”
“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 the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”
“But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.”
“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.”
“He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.”
“But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
“Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.”
“One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.”
“Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.”
“The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.”
“My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:”
“and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.”
“These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;”
“Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.”
“Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.”
“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
“and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.”
“You shall write them on the door posts of your house, and on your gates.”
“You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.”
“Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:”
“Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.”
“Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one:”