45 Bible Verses about Family And Friends

And you will be handed over even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put to death [some] of you.

For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will say, "Peace [be] within you."

The friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity.

For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call {loudly} after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.

A man of [many] friends will come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

And the enemies of a man [will be] the members of his household.

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother's sons,

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

And they said to her, "There is no one of your relatives who is called by this name."

But [it is] you, a man my equal, my friend and confidant.

Even {my close friend}, whom I trusted, [who] ate my bread, has lifted [his] heel against me.

My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand afar off.

And [when] {his family} heard [this], they went out to restrain him, for they were saying, "He has lost his mind!"

As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake [them], and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother.

And he did not permit him, but said to him, "Go to your home to your [people] and tell them all that the Lord has done for you, and [that] he has had mercy on you."

And I looked, got up, and said to the nobles, prefects, and the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses."

And he also said to the one who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or wealthy neighbors, lest they also invite you [in return], and repayment come to you.

And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing that is remarkable? Do not the Gentiles also do the same?

And another [person] also said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say farewell to those in my house."

A righteous person will seek out his neighbor, but the way of the wicked will lead them astray.

"Let everyone be on your guard against his neighbor, and you must not trust in any brother, for everyone surely betrays, and every neighbor goes about [with] slander.

And he said to them, "Truly I say to you that there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children on account of the kingdom of God,

Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap.

"Return to your home and tell all that God has done for you." And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town all that Jesus had done for him.

All the brothers of the poor, [if] they hate him, how much more will his friends keep away from him. He pursues [them with] words, [and] they are gone.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, {he cannot be} my disciple.

Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.

Then Job answered Yahweh and said,

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

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor will be left by his friends.

No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have revealed to you.

The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

God settles the lonely in a home; he brings prisoners out into prosperity. But the rebellious abide in a barren land.

The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the lovers of the rich are many.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all [people], and especially to those who belong to the household of faith.

If my father or my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will receive me.

It happened that as soon as he became king, at the moment he sat on his throne, he killed all of the house of Baasha. He left {no males} [among] his kindred or [any of] his friends.

Say to wisdom, "you are my sister," and you shall call insight, "{intimate friend}."

Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business!

"He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only turned aside from me.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields on account of my name will receive a hundred times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

And you, Pashhur, and all [those who] live [in] your house will go into captivity, and you will go [to] Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you, and all your friends to whom you have prophesied {falsely}.'"

and {he became angry} at his three friends because they had not found an answer, and they had declared Job guilty.

But he answered [and] said to them, "These are my mother and my brothers--the ones who hear the word of God and do [it].

Then David said, "[Is] there still anyone who [is] left for the house of Saul that I may show loyal love to him for the sake of Jonathan?"