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Storge is the love of community and family. Often dutiful, sometimes apparently unfeeling, or undemonstrative, but very strong nevertheless, storge love refers to natural or instinctual affection for one's own community, a natural, unforced, familial love; a primary example of storge love is the normally affectionate and protective love that a parent has for a child, which an emotionally healthy child has for the parents, and the powerful love of country expressed in genuine [[patriotism]]. It is a natural, carnal love, but powerful enough to be a real hindrance to spiritual growth, especially when family and culture are believed or felt to be more important than any other consideration, including the obligation of obedient love for God—some individuals have historically held duty toward family and country to be paramount, more important than duty toward God ([[deification]] and [[idolatry]]).  

Storge is the love of community and family. Often dutiful, sometimes apparently unfeeling, or undemonstrative, but very strong nevertheless, storge love refers to natural or instinctual affection for one's own community, a natural, unforced, familial love; a primary example of storge love is the normally affectionate and protective love that a parent has for a child, which an emotionally healthy child has for the parents, and the powerful love of country expressed in genuine [[patriotism]]. It is a natural, carnal love, but powerful enough to be a real hindrance to spiritual growth, especially when family and culture are believed or felt to be more important than any other consideration, including the obligation of obedient love for God—some individuals have historically held duty toward family and country to be paramount, more important than duty toward God ([[deification]] and [[idolatry]]). Storge has sometimes been a pretext for seeking revenge on others who have harmed country, community, or members of the family or group, even to the point of lethal revenge exacted as reprisal on innocent individuals they hold responsible for causing accidental deaths or those perceived as responsible for the arrest, trial, conviction, and execution of an undeniably guilty criminal member of the family, group, community or country.

'''Storge''' is found in the New Testament in Romans 12:10 as part of the Greek word '''φιλόστοργοι''' ''philostorgoi'', philo "love" + storgoi "family" (plural form of storge) "love of family" — εἰς ἀλλήλους φιλόστοργοι τῇ τιμῇ "toward one another devoted in honor"

'''Storge''' is found in the New Testament in Romans 12:10 as part of the Greek word '''φιλόστοργοι''' ''philostorgoi'', philo "love" + storgoi "family" (plural form of storge) "love of family" — εἰς ἀλλήλους φιλόστοργοι τῇ τιμῇ "toward one another devoted in honor"