17 Bible Verses about Family And Friends

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

and a man's own family will be his foes.

"There is not one of your family," they said, "who has that name."

Hearing of this, His relatives came to seize Him by force, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

But He would not allow it. "Go home to your family," He said, "and report to them all that the Lord has done for you, and the mercy He has shown you."

Also to His host, who had invited Him, He said, "When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbours, lest perhaps they should invite you in return and a requital be made you.

And if you salute only your near relatives, what praise is due to you? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

"Master," said yet another, "I will follow you; but allow me first to go and say good-bye to my friends at home."

"I solemnly tell you," replied Jesus, "that there is no one who has left house or wife, or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of God's Kingdom,

"Return home," He said, "and tell there all that God has done for you." So he went and published through the whole town all that Jesus had done for him.

"If any one is coming to me who does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

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

No longer do I call you servants, because a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all that I have heard from the Father I have made known to you.

Any one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and any one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

So then, as we have opportunity, let us labour for the good of all, and especially of those who belong to the household of the faith.

And whoever has forsaken houses, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children or lands, for my sake, shall receive many times as much and shall have as his inheritance the Life of the Ages.

"My mother and my brothers," He replied, "are these who hear God's Message and obey it."