Storge is family love, the bond among mothers, fathers, and sisters and brothers. This Greek term does not appear in the Bible. There are many examples of family love found in the Bible. Noah and his family, Jacob and his sons, Martha and Mary's love for their brother Lazarus. We need this kind of love as we develop as sons and daughters. We express this kind of love through tender affection: a nurturing touch, intimate gazing, as seen in my family picture on my website as I gaze at my sister feeling the warmth of her love back to me, playful interaction and gentle words.

 

It can foster a stable family environment where children feel safe and can establish a secure attachment with their parent and other parental figures. If we are secure and affirmed initially in our lives it has been because of the quality and quantity of Storge love, we received as a child. Storge love can begin in the womb and critical during the first five years of our life. It gives us our value as children. On the other hand, without this bond we may end up feeling insecure, alone, and not valued and can be replaced with fear. We can find in the Bible how many times in the letters that the words, Dearly Beloved are spoken.

Other referencing of Storge love in the Bible would be in:

 

Exodus 20:12, 12 "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. (The Fifth Commandment)

 

Proverbs 13:24, 24 Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.  Not so warm and fuzzy but love.

 

Ephesians 5:21-25, 21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word.