44 Bible Verses about Family And Friends

And ye will be betrayed even by parents, and kinsmen, and friends, and brothers. And some of you they will condemn to death.

For my brothers and companions' sakes I will now say, Peace be within thee.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

For even thy brothers, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have cried aloud after thee. Believe them not, though they speak fair words to thee.

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

And a man's foes, are those of his own household.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's sons.

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

And they said to her, There is no man among thy relatives who is called by this name.

But it was thou, a man my equal, my companion, and my familiar friend.

Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

And when those with him heard it, they went out to grasp him, for they said, He is beside himself.

Forsake not thine own friend, and thy father's friend. And go not to thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity. Better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far off.

But Jesus did not allow him, but says to him, Go to thy house to thy men, and report to them how much the Lord has done for thee, and was merciful to thee.

And I looked, and rose up, and said to the ranking men, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them. Remember LORD, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters

And he also said to the man who invited him, When thou make a dinner or a supper, do not call thy friends, nor thy brothers, nor thy kinsmen, nor prosperous neighbors, lest they also invite thee in return, and a recompense be made

And if ye only greet your friends, what do ye extra? Do not even the tax collectors this way?

And also another said, I will follow thee, Lord, but first allow me to bid farewell to those in my house.

A righteous man is a guide to his neighbor, but the way of the wicked causes them to err.

Take ye heed each one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, that there is no man who has left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children for the sake of the kingdom of God,

Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lays in thy bosom.

Return to thy house, and relate everything God did for thee. And he departed, proclaiming throughout the whole city how many things Jesus did for him.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [with] words, [but] they are gone.

If any man comes to me, and does not regard as inferior his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and besides his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And LORD turned [back] the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. And LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then Job answered LORD, and said,

Ye are my friends, if ye do as many things as I command you.

Wealth adds many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friend.

I no longer call you bondmen, because the bondman does not know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I made known to you.

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me, and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners into prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

The poor man is hated even by his own neighbor, but the rich man has many friends.

So then as we have time, let us work what is good toward all men, and especially toward those belonging to a household of the faith.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then LORD will take me up.

And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he smote all the house of Baasha. He left him not a single man-child, neither of his kinfolks, nor of his friends.

Say to wisdom, Thou are my sister, and call understanding [thy] kinswoman,

He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

And every man who has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, because of my name, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life.

And thou, Pashhur, and all who dwell in thy house shall go into captivity. And thou shall come to Babylon, and there thou shall die, and there thou shall be buried, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou have prophesied falsely.

His anger was also kindled against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

But having answered, he said to them, My mother and my brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.

And David said, Is there yet any who is left of the house of Saul that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?