13 Bible Verses about Love Between Relatives

{A song of the stairs} Behold, how good and joyful a thing it is, brethren, to dwell together in unity!

If any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to rule their own houses godly, and to recompense their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God.

And if any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them minister unto them, and let not the congregation be charged: that it may have sufficient for them that are widows indeed.

He is a friend that always loveth, and in adversity a man shall know who is his brother.

A friend that delighteth in love, doth a man more friendship, and sticketh faster unto him than a brother.

For how can I see the evil that shall happen unto my people? And how can I look upon the destruction of my kindred?"

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron and say unto them, 'A priest shall defile himself at the death of none of his people, but upon his kin that is nigh unto him: as his mother, father, son, daughter and brother: and on his sister as long as she is a maid and dwelleth nigh him and was never given to man: on her he may defile himself.read more.
But he shall not make himself unclean upon a ruler of his people to pollute himself withal.

They shall come at no dead person, to defile themselves; except it be father or mother, son or daughter, brother or sister that hath had yet no husband: in such they may be defiled.

he shall not make himself unclean at the death of his father, mother, brother or sister: For the abstinence of his God is upon his head.

If there be any that provideth not for his own, and namely for them of his household, the same denieth the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Then said Abram unto Lot, "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between thee and me, and between my herdsmen and thine, for we be brethren.

'Thus sayeth the LORD: Go not, nor yet fight against your brethren the children of Israel, but return every man to his house, for this doing is of the LORD.'" And they obeyed the word of the LORD and returned and departed according to the word of the LORD.

And the next day he showed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, 'Sirs, ye are brethren why hurt ye one another?'