SinaiBible verses about Love
Love in Family and Friendship
The people God gives you to love up close.
10 verses · World English Bible, with the American Standard Version beneath
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
ASV A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
ASV He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
ASV Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; So doth the sweetness of a man’s friend that cometh of hearty counsel.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.
ASV Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.
Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts you and me.”
ASV And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: Jehovah do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
ASV Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity!
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
ASV But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.
ASV Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,
ASV that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; 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.
ASV And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.