'Relatives' in the Bible

Even I and my relatives and my associates are lending them money and grain. But let us abandon this practice of seizing collateral!

From the day that I was appointed governor in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes -- twelve years in all -- neither I nor my relatives ate the food allotted to the governor.

For how can I watch the calamity that will befall my people, and how can I watch the destruction of my relatives?"

Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus. He was the highest-ranking Jew, and he was admired by his numerous relatives. He worked enthusiastically for the good of his people and was an advocate for the welfare of all his descendants.

"He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.

A servant who acts wisely will rule over an heir who behaves shamefully, and will share the inheritance along with the relatives.

All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him -- he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.

What right do you have to be here? What relatives do you have buried here? Why do you chisel out a tomb for yourself here? He chisels out his burial site in an elevated place, he carves out his tomb on a cliff.

And I will drive you out of my sight just like I drove out your relatives, the people of Israel.'"

Everyone must be on his guard around his friends. He must not even trust any of his relatives. For every one of them will find some way to cheat him. And all of his friends will tell lies about him.

"People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me," says the Lord. "For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done."

But I will strip everything away from Esau's descendants. I will uncover their hiding places so they cannot hide. Their children, relatives, and neighbors will all be destroyed. Not one of them will be left!

The person who lives in Zion says, "May Babylon pay for the violence done to me and to my relatives." Jerusalem says, "May those living in Babylonia pay for the bloodshed of my people."

"Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, 'They have gone far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.'

When their close relatives, the ones who will burn the corpses, pick up their bodies to remove the bones from the house, they will say to anyone who is in the inner rooms of the house, "Is anyone else with you?" He will respond, "Be quiet! Don't invoke the Lord's name!"

"Because you violently slaughtered your relatives, the people of Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be destroyed forever.

You should not have gloated when your relatives suffered calamity. You should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah when they were destroyed. You should not have boasted when they suffered adversity.

Then Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own house."

Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.

They said to her, "But none of your relatives bears this name."

but (because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day's journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

As the sun was setting, all those who had any relatives sick with various diseases brought them to Jesus. He placed his hands on every one of them and healed them.

He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you host a dinner or a banquet, don't invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

and said to him, 'Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.'

So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.

The following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting anxiously for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.