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Dec 28, 2020 · What does the Bible say about family love? Both the New and Old Testament teach the importance of family unity and love. God created the family unit as a source of growth, strength, and love. Through both challenging and joyful seasons, we can learn to love our family better.
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Jan 4, 2022 · To use Pauline language, we are adopted into God’s family (Romans 8:15). When we are adopted into God’s spiritual family, the Church, God becomes our Father and Jesus our Brother. This spiritual family is not bound by ethnicity, gender or social standing.
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43 Bible Verses about Family Love. Most Relevant Verses. 1 Peter 1:22. Verse Concepts. Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, Matthew 10:37. Verse Concepts.
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The Bible opens with a solitary individual, but he isn’t allowed to stay that way long. “It is not good that the man should be alone” (Genesis 2:18). God then brings every animal to the man in order to be judged and named, and the result is that “there was not found a helper fit for him” (Genesis 2:20). The story emphasizes his need for a certain s...
Of course, this original pair was created for a certain purpose. God had told them to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion . . . over every living thing that moves on the earth” (Genesis 1:28). As the language of Genesis 5:1–3also makes clear, the male and female, who were made in the likeness of God, make c...
Christian debates on this topic often come to one particular objection. Isn’t the church our new family? And if so, shouldn’t the community of the church challenge, and perhaps redefine, what we mean when we talk about the family? To answer this, we will need to use some systematic theology. Jesus does indeed say that we must be willing to hate our...
Of course, not everyone has a family. For some, family life has been disrupted due to death, divorce, or great sin. Christians mourn the loss in each of these situations and gladly offer alternative means of support. We see various cases of adoption in the Bible, including by cousins (Esther 2:7) and even in-laws (Ruth 1:16–17). Indeed, in the case...
As we build our families, however, we do not isolate them from the rest of the world. We still have relationships with our parents, along with a duty to help care for them as they age (1 Timothy 5:4). We still make place in our lives for friends, as even Jesus did (John 15:15; John 11:3, 5; John 21:20, 24). And in the church, we still love each oth...
What is God’s design for family, and how can we have the relationships God meant us to have? Are the relationships I have with my family a proper reflection of my heavenly standing in Christ?
