45 Bible Verses about Family And Friends

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to death.

For the sake of my relatives and friends I will now say, "May there be peace within you."

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is there for times of trouble.

Indeed, even your brothers and your father's family conspire against you. Even they cry out after you loudly. Don't believe them, even though they speak friendly words to you.

A man with many friends can still be ruined, but a true friend sticks closer than a brother.

A person's enemies will include members of his own family.'

I am a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother's sons.

my relatives have failed me; and my friends have abandoned me.

Their friends told her, "None of your relatives has that name."

but it is you a man whom I treated as my equal my personal confidant, my close friend!

As for my best friend, the one in whom I trusted, the one who ate my bread, even he has insulted me!

As for my friends and my neighbors, they stand aloof from my distress; even my close relatives stand at a distance.

When his family heard about it, they went to restrain him, because they kept saying, "He's out of his mind!"

Never abandon your friend nor your father's friend, and don't go to your brother's house in times of trouble. A neighbor who is near is better than a brother who lives far away.

But Jesus wouldn't let him. Instead, he told him, "Go home to your family, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been to you."

Looking things over, I stood up and spoke to the officials, the military leaders, and the rest of the people: "Don't fear them. Remember the great and awe-inspiring Lord. Fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes."

Then he told the man who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, stop inviting only your friends, brothers, relatives, or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return and you would be repaid.

And if you greet only your relatives, that's no great thing you're doing, is it? Even the unbelievers do the same, don't they?

Still another man said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to those at home."

The righteous person is cautious with respect to his neighbor, but the lifestyle of the wicked leads them astray.

"Beware of your neighbors, and don't trust any of your relatives. For all of your relatives act deceitfully, and every friend goes around as a slanderer.

Jesus told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, there is no one who has left his home, wife, brothers, parents, or children because of the kingdom of God

Don't trust your friends, don't confide in a companion, watch what you say to your wife.

"Go home and tell what God has done for you." So the man left and kept proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.

All the relatives of a poor person shun him how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he runs after them pleading, they aren't around.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as his own life, he can't be my disciple.

The LORD restored Job's prosperity after he prayed for his friends. The LORD doubled everything that Job had once possessed.

Job replied to the LORD:

You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

Wealth brings many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

I don't call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn't know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends, because I've made known to you everything that I've heard from my Father.

"The one who loves his father or mother more than me isn't worthy of me, and the one who loves a son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

God causes the lonely to dwell in families. He leads prisoners into prosperity, but rebels live on parched land.

The poor person is shunned by his neighbor, but many are the friends of the wealthy.

So then, whenever we have the opportunity, let's practice doing good to everyone, especially to the family of faith.

Though my father and my mother abandoned me, the LORD gathers me up.

As soon as he had consolidated his reign, he executed the entire household of Baasha. He did not leave a single male alive, including any of Baasha's relatives or friends.

Say to wisdom, "You're my sister!" and call understanding your close relative,

Consider someone who is alone, having neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his work, and he is never satisfied with wealth. "So for whom do I work," he asks, "and deprive myself of pleasure?" This, too, is pointless and a terrible tragedy.

"My brothers are alienated from me; my acquaintances are estranged;

In fact, everyone who has left his homes, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or fields because of my name will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

You, Pashhur, and all those living in your house will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon and there you will die. There you and all your loved ones to whom you have falsely prophesied will be buried.'"

Furthermore, he was furious with his three friends because they had not answered Job, but instead had condemned him.

But he answered those people, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear a message from God and heed it."

Later on, David asked, "Is there anyone left alive from Saul's household to whom I can show gracious love in memory of Jonathan?"