13 Bible Verses about Love Between Relatives
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A Davidic song of ascents.How good and pleasant it is
when brothers live together in harmony!
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.
If any believing woman has widows in her family, she should help them, and the church should not be burdened, so that it can help those who are genuinely widows.
A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for a difficult time.
A man with many friends may be harmed,
but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
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For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”
The Lord said to Moses: “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them: A priest is not to make himself ceremonially unclean for a dead person among his relatives, except for his immediate family: his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother. He may make himself unclean for his young unmarried sister in his immediate family. read more.
He is not to make himself unclean for those related to him by marriage and so defile himself.
A priest may not come near a dead person so that he becomes defiled. However, he may defile himself for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister.
He is not to defile himself for his father or mother, or his brother or sister, when they die, because the hair consecrated to his God is on his head.
But if anyone does not provide for his own, that is his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Then Abram said to Lot, “Please, let’s not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives.
‘This is what the Lord says: You are not to march up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for I have done this.’”
So they listened to what the Lord said and went back as He had told them.
The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’