17 Bible Verses about Family And Friends

But you will be delivered up by parents and brothers and relatives and friends; and some of you they will put to death;

and a man's enemies shall be those of his own household.

And they said to her: There is no one among your relatives that is called by this name.

And when his relatives heard of it, they came out to take him; for they said: He is beside himself.

And he did not permit him, but said to him: Go home to your relatives, and make known to them what things the Lord has done for you, and that he has had compassion on you.

Then he said also to him that had invited him: "When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor your rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and a recompense be made you.

And if you salute your brethren only, in what do you excel? Do not even the publicans so?

And another said: I will follow thee, Lord; but first permit me to take leave of those at home.

And he said to them: Verily I say to you, There is no one that has left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

Return to your house, and tell what things God has done for you. And he went away, proclaiming through the whole city what Jesus had done for him.

If any one comes to me, and hates not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his own life also, he can not be my disciple.

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

I no longer call you servants, because the servant knows not what his master does. But I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

He that loves father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me:

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those who are the household of the faith.

And every one that has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundred fold, and shall inherit eternal life. But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

But he answered and said to them: My mother and my brothers are they that hear the word of God and do it.