'Family' in the Bible

and a man's own family will be his foes.

So they turned angrily away from Him. But Jesus said to them, "There is no prophet left without honour except in his own country and among his own family."

"Teacher," they said, "Moses enjoined, 'If a man die childless, his brother shall marry his widow, and raise up a family for him.'

and if a family splits into parties, that family cannot continue.

But He would not allow it. "Go home to your family," He said, "and report to them all that the Lord has done for you, and the mercy He has shown you."

"Rabbi," they said, "Moses made it a law for us: 'If a man's brother should die and leave a wife, but no child, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.'

There were once seven brothers, the eldest of whom married a wife, but at his death left no family.

The second married her, and died, leaving no family; and the third did the same.

"There is not one of your family," they said, "who has that name."

And, knowing their thoughts, He said to them, "Every kingdom in which civil war rages goes to ruin: family attacks family and is overthrown.

So He said to them, "A man of noble family travelled to a distant country to obtain the rank of king, and to return.

"Rabbi, Moses made it a law for us that if a man's brother should die, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up a family for his brother.

Has not the Scripture declared that the Christ is to come of the family of David and from Bethlehem, David's village?"

with Annas the High Priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and the other members of the high-priestly family.

Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his family, numbering seventy-five persons, to come to him,

He will teach you truths by which you and all your family will be saved.'"

"Brethren, descendants of the family of Abraham, and all among you who fear God, to us has this Message of salvation been sent.

There were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew of high-priestly family, who were doing this.

For those whom He has known beforehand He has also pre-destined to bear the likeness of His Son, that He might be the Eldest in a vast family of brothers;

You are therefore no longer mere foreigners or persons excluded from civil rights. On the contrary you share citizenship with God's people and are members of His family.

from whom the whole family in Heaven and on earth derives its name,

But if a man makes no provision for those dependent on him, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is behaving worse than an unbeliever.

Through faith Noah, being divinely taught about things as yet unseen, reverently gave heed and built an ark for the safety of his family, and by this act he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which depends on faith.