24 Bible Verses about Relatives

For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you."

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.

but you shall go to my father's house and to my clan and take a wife for my son.'

And he said to him, "Say now to her, 'See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?'" She answered, "I dwell among my own people."

And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son, and she ran and told her father.

Now Naomi had a relative of her husband's, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.

So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.

Is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.

All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is our close relative. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king's expense? Or has he given us any gift?"

So they tied sackcloth around their waists and put ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-hadad says, 'Please, let me live.'" And he said, "Does he still live? He is my brother."

Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, "Who are you?" And they answered, "We are the relatives of Ahaziah, and we came down to visit the royal princes and the sons of the queen mother."

Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah,

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,

And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.

Greet my kinsman Herodion. Greet those in the Lord who belong to the family of Narcissus.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.

And they said to her, "None of your relatives is called by this name."