45 Bible Verses about Family And Friends

'And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;

For the sake of my brethren and my companions, Let me speak, I pray thee, 'Peace be in thee.'

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, Even they dealt treacherously against thee, Even they -- they called after thee fully, Trust not in them, when they speak to thee good things.

A man with friends is to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

and the enemies of a man are those of his household.

A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother.

Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,

And they said unto her -- 'There is none among thy kindred who is called by this name,'

But thou, a man -- as mine equal, My familiar friend, and mine acquaintance.

Even mine ally, in whom I trusted, One eating my bread, made great the heel against me,

My lovers and my friends over-against my plague stand. And my neighbours afar off have stood.

and his friends having heard, went forth to lay hold on him, for they said that he was beside himself,

Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better is a near neighbour than a brother afar off.

and Jesus did not suffer him, but saith to him, 'Go away to thy house, unto thine own friends, and tell them how great things the Lord did to thee, and dealt kindly with thee;

And I see, and rise up, and say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of the people, 'Be not afraid of them; the Lord, the great and the fearful, remember ye, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.'

And he said also to him who did call him, 'When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee;

and if ye may salute your brethren only, what do ye abundant? do not also the tax-gatherers so?

And another also said, 'I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;'

The righteous searcheth his companion, And the way of the wicked causeth them to err.

Each of his friend -- beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk,

and he said to them, 'Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,

Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth.

'Turn back to thy house, and tell how great things God did to thee;' and he went away through all the city proclaiming how great things Jesus did to him.

All the brethren of the poor have hated him, Surely also his friends have been far from him, He is pursuing words -- they are not!

'If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

And Jehovah hath turned to the captivity of Job in his praying for his friends, and Jehovah doth add to all that Job hath -- to double.

And Job answereth Jehovah and saith: --

ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

'He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place.

Even of his neighbour is the poor hated, And those loving the rich are many.

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

When my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then doth Jehovah gather me.

and it cometh to pass in his reigning, at his sitting on his throne, he hath smitten the whole house of Baasha; he hath not left to him any sitting on the wall, and of his redeemers, and of his friends.

Say to wisdom, 'My sister Thou art.' And cry to understanding, 'Kinswoman!'

There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not, 'For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.

and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

And thou, Pashhur, and all dwelling in thy house, Do go into captivity. and Babylon thou dost enter, And there thou diest, and there thou art buried, Thou and all loving thee, To whom thou hast prophesied falsely.'

and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.

and he answering said unto them, 'My mother and my brethren! they are those who the word of God are hearing, and doing.'

And David saith, 'Is there yet any left to the house of Saul, and I do with him kindness because of Jonathan?'