Storge: every verse in the Bible and Apocrypha
This is the list of every time “storge” is used (usually as part of a compound word) in the Bible and the Apocrypha. The Translation being utilized is the New Revised Standard Version. The “Bible program” used is BibleWorks. I’m including the Apocrypha to give some background to the three times the word is used in the entire Bible. I put the translation of the words in “bold” font.
NRS 2 Maccabees 6:20 as all ought to go who have the courage to refuse things that it is not right to taste, even for the natural love of life.
NRS 2 Maccabees 9:21 I remember with affection your esteem and goodwill. On my way back from the region of Persia I suffered an annoying illness, and I have deemed it necessary to take thought for the general security of all.
NRS 3 Maccabees 5:32 In fact you would have been deprived of life instead of these, if it were not for an affection arising from our nurture in common and your usefulness.”
NRS 4 Maccabees 14:13-14,17 Observe how complex is a mother’s love for her children, which draws everything toward an emotion felt in her inmost parts. 14 Even unreasoning animals, as well as human beings, have a sympathy and parental love for their offspring. … 17 If they are not able to keep the intruder away, they do what they can to help their young by flying in circles around them in the anguish of love, warning them with their own calls.
NRS 4 Maccabees 15:6,9,13 The mother of the seven boys, more than any other mother, loved her children. In seven pregnancies she had implanted in herself tender love toward them, … 9 Not only so, but also because of the nobility of her sons and their ready obedience to the law, she felt a greater tenderness toward them. … 13 O sacred nature and affection of parental love, yearning of parents toward offspring, nurture and indomitable suffering by mothers!
NRS Romans 1:31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
NRS Romans 12:10 love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
NRS 2 Timothy 3:3 inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good,