12 Bible Verses about Relatives

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Whoever fails to provide for his own relatives, and especially for those of his immediate family, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

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And Joseph too went up from Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to the town of David in Judea called Bethlehem, because he was a descendant of the house and family of David,

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And listen! your relative, Elizabeth, has herself too become pregnant, although she is old, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

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Remember me to Andronicus and Junias, my fellow-country-men, who also served in prison with me; they are held in high esteem among the apostles, and became Christians before I did.

Remember me to Herodion, my fellow-countryman. Remember me to the Christian members of Narcissus' family.

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Timothy, my fellow-worker, wishes to be remembered to you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater too, my fellow-countrymen.

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Then they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives that bears that name."

Topics on Relatives

Hatred Between Relatives

Luke 21:16

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Yes, you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and they will put some of you to death,

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in the treatment of their own families, and to pay the debt they owe their parents or grandparents, for this is acceptable to God.

Marrying Relatives

Relatives Also Involved

Matthew 10:25

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The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!