24 Bible Verses about Relatives

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.

If any do not provide for his own, and specially his own household, he denies the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

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

Go back to the land where I was born and find a wife for my son from among my relatives.'

he said to Gehazi: Ask her what I can do for her in return for all the trouble she has had in providing for our needs. Maybe she would like me to go to the king or the army commander and put in a good word for her. I have all I need here among my own people, she answered.

Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's nephew and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

Boaz was a relative of Naomi. He was a wealthy man from the family of Elimelech.

So she went and picked up the heads of grain in the field after the cutters. By chance she went into that part of the field owned by Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

Boaz is of our kindred, with whose servant girls you have been. He winnows barley tonight in the threshing floor.

All the people of Judah answered the people of Israel: Because the king is our relative. Why are you angry about this? Did we eat the king's food, or did he give us any gifts?

So they put on haircloth, and cords on their heads, and went to the king of Israel and said: Your servant Benhadad says: 'Let me now keep my life.' And he said: Is he still living? He is my brother.

He came across the brothers of Ahaziah, king of Judah, and asked: Who are you? They replied: We are the brothers of Ahaziah, king of Judah. We are going down to see the children of the king and of the queen.

Before this, Eliashib the priest had been placed over the rooms of the house of our God. He was a friend of Tobiah.

Joseph came from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea to be counted and taxed. He went to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David.

Your relative Elisabeth has also conceived a son even in her old age. This so-called barren woman is in her sixth month.

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

Greet my relative Herodion. Greet those who are of the household of Narcissus, for they are in the Lord.

Timothy my coworker and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my relative, salute you.

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