45 Bible Verses about Family And Friends

Parent, brothers and sisters and friends will turn you over and cause you to be put to death.

For the sake of my brothers and friends let me say: May it go well for you!

A friend loves at all times. A true brother is born for adversity.

Even your relatives, members of your own family, have betrayed you. They join in the attacks against you. Do not trust them, even though they speak friendly words.

A man with friends must be friendly! A friend sticks closer than a brother.

A man's enemies will be from his own family.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.

My relatives and my closest friends have stopped coming. My houseguests have forgotten me.

They all said: None of your relatives are called by this name.

But it is you, my equal, my close friend, and a well-known companion!

Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

My loved ones and my friends keep their distance and my relatives stand far away because of my sickness.

When his own people heard of this they went to apprehend him. They said: He has lost his senses.

Do not forget your friends or your father's friends. If you are in trouble, do not ask a relative for help. A nearby neighbor can help you more than relatives who are far away.

Jesus told him: Go to your house and to your friends and tell them about the great things God did for you and how he had mercy on you.

And after looking, I got up and said to the great ones and to the chiefs and to the rest of the people, Have no fear of them. Keep in mind Jehovah who is great and greatly to be feared. Take up arms for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives and your houses.

Jesus said to his host: When you give a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors. They will invite you back, and in this way you will be paid for what you did.

When you are kind only to your friends [and brothers] what makes you different from anyone else? Even people of the nations do that.

Another said: I will follow you Lord, but first let me go say good by to my relatives.

The righteous is a guide to his neighbor. The way of the wicked leads others astray.

Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor. Do not trust any brother because every brother deals craftily (cunningly), and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

Jesus said: Truly I tell you, no man has left house, or wife, or brother, or parents, or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

Do not put your faith in your neighbor. Do not trust a friend! Guard your lips from her who lies in your bosom (is your intimate companion).

Return to your house and declare the great things God has done for you. He went throughout the whole city telling the great things Jesus had done for him.

The brothers of the poor hate him. His friends leave him. He pursues them with words but they do not listen!

You who come to me may not be my disciple unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters and yourself.

After Job had prayed for his friends, Jehovah made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before.

JOB REPLIED TO JEHOVAH:

You are my friends if you do the things that I command you.

Wealth makes many friends but poverty drives them away.

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

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. He who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

God sets the lonely in families. He frees the prisoners who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

The poor is hated by his neighbor, but the rich have many friends.

So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Even if my father and mother abandon (forsake) me, Jehovah will take care of me.

Immediately after he became king and took his place on the throne of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha. Not one male child survived.

Say to wisdom: You are my sister! Call understanding your friend.

There is a man who is by himself, without a companion. He is without son or brother. There is no end to all his work. He never has enough wealth. Nor is his eye satisfied with riches. He never asks: For whom do I labor and deprive myself of pleasure? This too is vanity and a terrible problem.

My brothers stay far away from me. My friends are complete strangers to me.

Everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will receive many times as much, and have everlasting life.

You, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into captivity. You will enter Babylon, and there you will die and be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have falsely prophesied.'

He was angry also with Job's three friends because they found no answer, though they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

He answered, My mother and my brother are these who hear the word of God, and do it.

One day, David thought: I wonder if any of Saul's family is still alive. If they are I will be kind to them. This is because I made a promise to Jonathan.