45 Bible Verses about Family And Friends

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

For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors I will say, "May there be peace in you!"

A friend loves at all times, and a relative is born to help in adversity.

As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.

A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

and a man's enemies will be the members of his household.

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.

They said to her, "But none of your relatives bears this name."

But it is you, a man like me, my close friend in whom I confided.

Even my close friend whom I trusted, he who shared meals with me, has turned against me.

Because of my condition, even my friends and acquaintances keep their distance; my neighbors stand far away.

When his family heard this they went out to restrain him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend, and do not enter your brother's house in the day of your disaster; a neighbor nearby is better than a brother far away.

But Jesus did not permit him to do so. Instead, he said to him, "Go to your home and to your people and tell them what the Lord has done for you, that he had mercy on you."

When I had made an inspection, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, "Don't be afraid of them. Remember the great and awesome Lord, and fight on behalf of your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your families!"

He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you host a dinner or a banquet, don't invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.

And if you only greet your brothers, what more do you do? Even the Gentiles do the same, don't they?

Yet another said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say goodbye to my family."

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

Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him.

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of God's kingdom

Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Don't even share secrets with the one who lies in your arms!

"Return to your home, and declare what God has done for you." So he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town what Jesus had done for him.

All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him -- he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

So the Lord restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the Lord doubled all that had belonged to Job.

Then Job answered the Lord:

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

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

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.

A poor person is disliked even by his neighbors, but those who love the rich are many.

So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.

Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the Lord would take me in.

When he became king and occupied the throne, he killed Baasha's entire family. He did not spare any male belonging to him; he killed his relatives and his friends.

Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding a close relative,

A man who is all alone with no companion, he has no children nor siblings; yet there is no end to all his toil, and he is never satisfied with riches. He laments, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is futile and a burdensome task!

"He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.

And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

You, Pashhur, and all your household will go into exile in Babylon. You will die there and you will be buried there. The same thing will happen to all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.'"

With Job's three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.

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

Then David asked, "Is anyone still left from the family of Saul, so that I may extend kindness to him for the sake of Jonathan?"