45 Bible Verses about Family And Friends

Yea, and ye shall be betrayed of your fathers and mothers, and of your brethren, and kinsmen, and lovers. And some of you shall they put to death.

For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will wish thee prosperity.

He is a friend that always loveth, and in adversity a man shall know who is his brother.

For thy brethren and thy kindred have altogether despised thee, and cried out upon thee in thine absence. Believe them not, though they speak fair words to thee.

A friend that delighteth in love, doth a man more friendship, and sticketh faster unto him than a brother.

And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

I am become a stranger unto my brethren, even an alien unto my mother's children.

Mine own kinfolk have forsaken me, and my friends have put me out of remembrance.

And they said unto her, "There is none of thy kin that is named with this name."

But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.

Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I trusted, who did also eat my bread, hath lift up his heel against me.

My lovers and friends stand looking upon my trouble, and my kinsmen are gone afar off.

And when they that longed unto him heard of it, they went out to hold him. For they said, "He is too fervent."

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, see thou forsake not; but go not into thy brother's house in time of thy trouble. Better is a friend at hand than a brother far off.

Howbeit, Jesus would not suffer him but said unto him, "Go home into thine own house and to thy friends, and show them what great things the Lord hath done unto thee, and how he had compassion on thee."

and looked, and gat me up, and said unto the chief men and rulers, and to the other people, "Be not ye afraid of them, but think rather upon the great LORD, which ought to be feared; and fight for your brethren, sons, daughters, wives, and houses."

Then said he also to him that had desired him to dinner, "When thou makest a dinner, or a supper: call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor yet rich neighbours: lest they bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee.

And if ye be friendly to your brethren only, what singular thing do ye? Do not the Publicans likewise?

And another said, "I will follow thee Lord: But let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house."

The righteous is liberal unto his neighbour, but the way of the ungodly will deceive themselves.

Yea, one must keep himself from another; no man may safely trust his own brother. For one brother undermineth another, and one neighbour begileth another.

And he said unto them, "Verily I say unto you, there is no man that leaveth house: other father and mother, other brethren, or wife, or children: for the kingdom of God's sake,

Let no man believe his friend, nor put his confidence in a prince. Keep the door of thy mouth, from her that lieth in thy bosom:

"Go home again into thine own house, and show what great things God hath done to thee." And he went his way, and preached throughout all the city what great things Jesus had done unto him.

As for the poor, he is hated among all his brethren; yea, his own friends forsake him, and he that giveth credence unto words, getteth nothing.

"If a man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, moreover and his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

and the LORD turned him unto Job, when he prayed for his friends: Yea, the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had afore.

Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Riches make many friends; but the poor is forsaken of his own friends.

Henceforth, call I you not servants: For the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth. But you have I called friends: For all things that I have heard of my father, I have opened to you.

He that loveth his father or mother more than me, is not meet for me: and he that loveth his son or daughter more than me, is not meet for me.

He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in a house, and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity, but letteth the renegades continue in scarceness.

The poor is hated even of his own neighbours; but the rich hath many friends.

While we have, therefore, time; let us do good unto all men, and specially, unto them which are of the household of faith.

When my father and my mother forsake me, the LORD taketh me up.

And as soon as he was king and sat his seat, he slew all the house of Baasha and left not a pisser against a wall. And thereto he slew all his kin and friends,

Say unto wisdom, "Thou art my sister," and call understanding thy kinswoman:

There is one man, no more but himself alone, having neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of his careful travail, his eyes cannot be satisfied with riches. Yet, doth he not remember himself, and say, "For whom do I take such travail? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life?" This is also a vain and miserable thing.

He hath put my brethren far away from me, and such as were of mine acquaintance, are become strangers unto me.

And whosoever forsaketh houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake; the same shall receive a hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

But as for thee, O Pashhur, thou shalt be carried unto Babylon with all thine household, and to Babylon shalt thou come, where thou shalt die, and be buried: thou and all thy favorers, to whom thou hast preached lies."

And with Job's three friends he was angry also, because they had found no reasonable answer to overcome him.

He answered, and said unto them, "My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it."

Then said David, "Is there yet any man left of the house of Saul, that I may show him mercy for Jonathan's sake?"