45 Bible Verses about Family And Friends

And you shall be betrayed both by parents, and brothers, and kinsfolk, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you.

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

For even your brethren, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; yea, they have called a multitude after you: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto you.

A man that has friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

I have become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

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

And they said unto her, There is none of your kindred that is called by this name.

But it was you, a man my equal, my guide, and my close friend.

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

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.

Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

But Jesus permitted him not, but said unto him, Go home to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and has had compassion on you.

And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not afraid of them: remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

Then said he also to him that bade him, When you give a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brethren, neither your kinsmen, nor your rich neighbors; lest they also bid you again, and a recompense be made you.

And if you greet your brethren only, what do you more than others? do not even the tax collectors so?

And another also said, Lord, I will follow you; but let me first go bid them farewell, who are at home at my house.

The righteous chooses his friends carefully: but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and trust you not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.

And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that has left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

Trust not in a friend, put not confidence in a companion: keep the doors of your mouth from her that lies in your bosom.

Return to your own house, and show what great things God has done unto you. And he went his way, and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done unto him.

All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursues them with words, yet they are nothing to him.

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

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

Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor.

From now on I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

The poor is hated even of his own neighbor: but the rich has many friends.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the 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 slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one single male, neither of his relatives, nor of his friends.

Say unto wisdom, you are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.

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

And everyone that has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

And you, Pashhur, and all that dwell in your house shall go into captivity: and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and shall be buried there, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied lies.

Also against his three friends was his wrath aroused, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

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

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