17 Bible Verses about Family And Friends

And you shall be delivered up by parents, and brothers, and relatives, and friends; and they shall kill some of you;

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

And they said to her, There is no one of your relations who is called by this name;

And those with him hearing of it, went out to take him; for they said, He is beside himself.

and he permitted him not, but said to him, Go to your home, to your friends, and relate to them what the Lord has done for you, and what mercy he has shown you.

And he said also to him that had invited him, When you make a breakfast, or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor your rich neighbors, lest they also at some time invite you in return, and a compensation be made to you.

And if you salute your brothers only, what do you do more than [others]? Do not the gentiles also do the same?

And another also said, Lord, I will follow you, but permit me first to bid farewell to those in my house.

And he said to them, I tell you truly, that there is no one who has left a house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, on account of the kingdom of God,

Return to your house, and declare how great things God has done for you. And he went away proclaiming in all the city what great things 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 still more his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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

I no longer call you servants, for the servant knows not what his Lord does; but I have called you friends: for all things which 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;

As we have opportunity, therefore, let us do good to all, but especially to the members of the family of the faith.

and whoever has left brothers or sisters, or a father or mother, or children, or lands or houses, for my name's sake, shall receive many times as much, and inherit eternal life.

And he answered and said to them, My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and perform it.