45 Bible Verses about Family And Friends

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

For my brothers' 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 brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don't believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A man's foes will be those of his own household.

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

My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by this name."

But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

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

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him: for they said, "He is insane."

Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

He didn't allow him, but said to him, "Go to your house, to your friends, and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how he had mercy on you."

I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, "Don't be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses."

He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.

If you only greet your friends, what more do you do than others? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?

Another also said, "I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house."

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake,

Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

"Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you." He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then Job answered Yahweh,

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

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

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me.

God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

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

So then, as we have opportunity, let's do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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

It happened, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he struck all the house of Baasha: he didn't leave him a single one who urinates on a wall, neither of his relatives, nor of his friends.

Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. "For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?" This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

You, Pashhur, and all who dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you, and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.

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

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

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