40 Bible Verses about Sisters

An elder shouldest thou not reprove, but beseech as a father; the younger as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

And to a dead man they shall not come to be defiled: but for father and for mother, and for son and for daughter, for brother, for sister who was not to a husband, they shall be defiled.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Say to the priests the sons of Aaron, and say to them, for the soul he shall not be defiled among his peoples. But if for his remainder coming near to him, for his mother and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother, And for his sister, a virgin, coming near to him, who was not for a husband for her, he shall be defiled.

All the days of his consecrating himself to Jehovah, he shall not go in to a dead soul. For his father, and for his mother, for his brother and for his sister, he shall not be defiled for them in their dying: for the consecration of his God upon his head.

A man as in the land of Uz, Job his name; and that man was blameless and upright, and fearing God, and departing from evil. And seven sons and three daughters will be born to him. And his possession will be seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred pair of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and service exceedingly much; and that man shall be great above all the sons of the east.read more.
And his sons went and made a drinking in the house, a man his day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

And Tamar will take ashes upon her head, and she rent the tunic reaching to the feet which was upon her, and she will put her hand upon her head and will go, going and crying. And Absalom her brother will say to her Was Amnon thy brother with thee? and now my sister be silent, he is thy brother; thou shalt not set thy heart to this word. And Tamar will remain, and she was desolate in the house of Absalom her brother.

And truly also my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother: and she was to me for wife.

The nakedness of thy sister, daughter of thy father or daughter of thy mother, born within or born without, thou shalt not uncover their nakedness.

The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father (she is thy sister), thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. The nakedness of thy father's sister, thou shalt not uncover: she is thy father's remainder. The nakedness of thy mother's sister thou shalt not uncover, for she thy mother's remainder.

And a man who shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and he saw her nakedness, and she shall see his nakedness; it is a reproach; and they were cut off in the eyes of the sons of their people; he uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

Cursed he lying with his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter: and all the people said, Amen.

And a man did abomination with his neighbor's wife; and a man defiled his daughter-in-law in wickedness; and a man humbled his sister, his father's daughter, in thee.

And Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she brought forth to Jacob, will go forth to see the daughters of the land. And Shechem will see her, the son of Hamor the Hivite, chief of the land; will take her, and lie with her, and will humble her. And his soul will cleave to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he will love the maiden, and he will speak to the heart of the maiden.read more.
And Shechem will say to Hamor his father, saying, Take to me this maid for a wife. And Jacob heard that he defiled Dinah his daughter: and his sons were with his cattle in the field, and Jacob was silent till their coming. And Hamor the father of Shechem will go forth to Jacob to speak to him. And the sons of Jacob came from the field when they having heard: and the men will be grieved, and it will be kindled to them exceedingly because he did folly in Israel, to lie with Jacob's daughter; and thus it shall not be done. And Hamor will speak with them, saying, The soul of Shechem my son, was attached with his soul to your daughter; now give her to him for a wife. And contract ye marriages with us; ye shall give your daughters to us, and ye shall take our daughters to you. And ye shall dwell with us, and the land shall be before you; dwell ye and traffic in it, and take possession in it And Shechem will say to her father, and to her brethren, Shall I find favor in your eyes? and what ye shall say to me I will give. Increase to me greatly the dowry and gift, and I will give according to that ye shall say to me; and ye shall give to me this maiden for a wife. And the sons of Jacob will answer Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and will say, Because he defiled Dinah their sister. And they will say to them, We shall not be able to do this word, to give our sister to a man which to him is uncircumcision; for this a reproach to us. But in this will we consent to you, if ye will be as we to circumcise to you every male; And we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you and be one people. And if ye will not listen to us to be circumcised, and we will take out daughter and depart And their words will be pleasing in the eyes of Hamor, and in the eyes of Shechem, Hamor's son. And the youth deferred not to do the word, for he delighted in Jacob's daughter, and he was honorable more than all his father's house. And Hamor will come, and Shechem his son, to the gate of their city, and they will speak to the men of the city, saying, These men they are living peacefully with us, and they shall dwell in the land, and traffic in it; and the land, behold, being broad to the hands be. fore them: we will take their daughters to us for wives, and give our daughters to them. Only in this will the men consent to us to dwell with us to be for one people, in the circumcising to us every male according as they having been circumcised. Their cattle and their possession and all their quadrupeds, shall they not be to us? only we will consent to them, and they will dwell with us. And to Hamor and to Shechem his son, will listen all going out of the gate of the city: and they will circumcise every male, all going out of the gate of the city. And it will be in the third day, in their having pain, and the two sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, will take a man his sword, and will go against the city securely, and will kill every male. And they killed Hamor and Shechem his son, with the mouth of the sword; and they will take Dinah from the house of Shechem, and go forth. The sons of Jacob came upon the wounded, and they will plunder the city, because they defiled their sister. Their sheep and their oxen and their asses, and what was in the city, and what in the field, they took. And all their force and all their little ones, and their wives they led captive, and they will plunder all which is in the house. And Jacob will say to Simeon and to Levi, Ye troubled me to make me evil to him dwelling in the land to the Canaanites, and to the Perizzites and I men of number, and they will gather together and smite me, and I all be destroyed, and my house. And they will say, Shall he do to our sister as an harlot?

And it will be after this, and to Absalom son of David a fair sister, and her name Tamar; and Amnon, son of David, loved her. And Amnon will be pressed to be sick for sake of Tamar his sister, for she was a virgin; and it will be hard in the eyes of Amnon to do anything to her. And to Amnon a friend, and his name Jonadab, son of Shimeah, David's brother: and Jonadab a man exceeding wise.read more.
And he will say to him, Wherefore thou so weak, son of the king, in morning by morning? wilt thou not announce to me? and Amnon will say to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. And Jonadab will say to him, Lie upon thy bed and be sick, and thy father coming to see thee, and say to him, Now my sister Tamar shall come and give me to eat bread and make the food before mine eyes, so that I shall see and eat from her hand. And Amnon will lie down and be sick: and the king will come to see him, and Amnon will say to the king, Will Tamar my sister come now, and she shall make before mine eyes two cakes, and I will eat from her hand. And David will send to Tamar, saying, Go now to the house of Amnon thy brother, and make food for him. And Tamar will go to the house of Amnon her brother, and he lay down. And she will take dough and knead, and make cakes before his eyes, and bake the cakes. And she will take a frying-pan and pour out before him; and he will refuse to eat. And Amnon will say, Bring out every man from me. And they brought forth every man from him. And Amnon will say to Tamar, Bring the cakes into the chamber, and I will eat from thine hand And Tamar will take the cakes which she made and bring to Amnon her brother into the chamber. And she will bring near to him to eat, and he will lay hold upon her and say, Come lie with me, my sister. And she will say to him, No, my brother, thou shalt not humble me; for so it shall not be done in Israel: thou shalt not do this folly. And I, whither shall I cause my reproach to go? and thou wilt be as one of the foolish in Israel. And now, speak now, to the king, and he will not withhold me from thee. And he would not hear to her voice; and he will be strong above her, and he will humble her and lie with her. And Amnon will hate her with great hatred, greatly; for great the hatred which he hated her above the love which he loved her. And Amnon will say to her, Arise, go. And she will say to him, No reasons: this evil great above the other which thou didst with me, to send me away. And he would not hear to her. And he will call his boy serving him, and say, Send away now this from me without, and fasten the door after her. And upon her a tunic reaching to the soles of the feet; for thus will the king's daughters, the virgins, be clothed with upper garments. And his attendant will bring her forth without, and he fastened the door after And Tamar will take ashes upon her head, and she rent the tunic reaching to the feet which was upon her, and she will put her hand upon her head and will go, going and crying.

And it will be for two years of days, and shearers will be to Absalom in Baal-Hazor, which is with Ephraim: and Absalom will call for all the king's sons. And Absalom will come to the king and say, Behold now, shearers to thy servant: now will the king go, and his servants, with thy servant? And the king will say to Absalom, No, my son, not now will we all go, and we will not be heavy upon thee. And he will press upon him, and he would not go, and he will bless him.read more.
And Absalom will say, And shall not Amnon my brother now go with us? And the king will say to him, Wherefore shall he go with thee? And Absalom will press upon him, and he will send with him Amnon and all the king's sons. And Absalom will command his boys, saying, See now, when the heart of Amnon is good with wine, and I said to you, Strike Amnon; and kill him; ye shall not be afraid, for I commanded you: be strong and be for sons of strength. And Absalom's boys will do to Amnon as Absalom commanded. And all the king's sons will rise up and ride each upon his mule and flee. And it will be they in the way, and the report came to David saying, Absalom struck all the king's sons and not one remaining of them. And the king will rise and rend his garments, and will lie down upon the earth; and all his servants standing by with their garments rent. And Jonadab, son of Shimeah, David's brother, will answer and say, My lord shall not say, All the boys, the king's sons, were slain; for Amnon alone died; for by the mouth of Absalom it was set from the day he humbled Tamar his sister. And now my lord the king shall not set to his heart the word, saying, All the king's sons died; for only Amnon alone died. And Absalom will flee. And the boy watching will lift up his eyes and see, and behold, much people coming from the way behind him from the side of the mountain. And Jonadab will say to the king, Behold, the king's sons came; as thy servant spake, so it was. And it will be as he finished to speak, and behold, the king's sons came, and they will lift up their voice and weep: and the king and all his servants wept a very great weeping.

And there shall be a famine in the land; and Abram will go down to Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was strong in the land. And it shall be when he came near to go to Egypt, he will say to Sarai his wife, Behold, now I knew that thou wert a fair woman to see. And it shall be when the Egyptians shall see thee, they shall say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, and thee they will permit to live.read more.
Say, now, thou my sister, that it shall be well to me because of thee, and my soul shall live by means of thee. And it shall be when Abram goes to Egypt, and the Egyptians will see the woman that she was very fair. And Pharaoh's rulers will see her, and will praise her to Pharaoh, and the woman shall be taken into Pharaoh's house. And he will do good to Abram on account of her; and there shall be to him sheep and oxen and he-asses, and servants and maids, and she-asses and camels. And Jehovah will touch Pharaoh with great strokes, and his house on account of Sarai, Abram's wife. And Pharaoh will call to Abram, and will say, What this thou didst to me? why didst thou not declare to me that she is thy wife? Why saidst thou, She is my sister and I shall take her to me for a wife? and now behold thy wife, take and go. And Pharaoh will command the men concerning him, and they will send him away, and his wife and all that is to him.

And Abraham will remove from thence to the land of the south, and will dwell between Kadesh and between Shur, and will sojourn in Gerar. And Abraham will say as to Sarah his wife, This my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, will send and take Sarah. And God will come to Abimelech in a dream at night, and say to him, Behold, thou dead, for the woman which thou didst take, and she having married a husband.read more.
And Abimelech came not near to her: and he will say, Lord, wilt thou also slay a just nation? Did he not say to me, This my sister? and she also, she said he is my brother: in the uprightness of my heart, and in cleanness of my hands have I done this. And God will say to him in a dream, I knew also that in the uprightness of thy heart thou didst this; and I also will restrain thee from sinning against me: for this I suffered thee not to touch her. And now turn back to the man the woman; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and do thou live: and if thou turn her not back, know that dying, thou shalt die, thou and all which are to thee.

And a famine shall be iu the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham. And Isaak will go to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar. And Jehovah will be seen to him, and will say, Thou. shalt not go down to Egypt: dwell in the land which I shall say to thee. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee, for to thee and to thy seed will I give all these lands; and I established the oath which I sware to Abraham thy father.read more.
And I will increase thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and I will give to thy seed all these lands: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be praised. Because that Abraham listened to my voice, and he will watch my watches, my commands, my statutes, and my precepts. And Isaak dwelt in Gerar. And the men of the place will ask concerning his wife; and he will say, She is my sister: for he will be afraid to say, My wife, lest the men of the place will kill me for Rebekah, because she is good in appearance. And it was when the days there were long to him, and Abimelech king of the Philistines shall bend forward through the window, and will see, and behold, Isaak playing with Rebekah his wife. And Abimelech will call to Isaak, and will say, Surely, behold, she thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaak will say to him, Because I said, Lest I shall die for her. And Abimelech will say, What this thou didst to us? nearly one of the people lay with thy wife, and thou broughtest blame upon us.

And Rachel will see that she shall not bring forth to Jacob, and Rachel will envy her sister, and will say to Jacob, Give me sons, and if not, I die.

And Bilhah, Rachel's maid will yet again conceive and bare a second son to Jacob. And Rachel will say, The wrestlings of God I wrestled with my sister; also I was able. And she will call his name Naphtali.

And it was in their going forth, and he came to a certain town : and a certain woman by the name of Martha received him in her house. And also a sister was to her, called Mary; and she having sat at Jesus' feet, heard his word. And Martha was perplexed about much service, and having stood before, said, Lord, carest thou not that my sister left me to serve alone ? speak therefore to her that she may lay hold and assist with me.read more.
And Jesus having answered, said to her, Martha,.Martha, thou bast care, and art confused about many things And of one thing there is need : and Mary has chosen the 'good part which shall not betaken away from her.

And Miriam and Aaron will speak against Moses on account of the Ethiopian woman which he took: for he took an Ethiopian woman. And they will say, Did Jehovah only now speak by Moses? Did he not also speak by us? And Jehovah will hear. And the man Moses greatly humble, more than all the men upon the face of the earth.read more.
And Jehovah will say in a moment to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam, Come forth ye three unto the tent of appointment And they three will come forth. And Jehovah will come down in the pillar of the cloud, and will stand at the door of the tent, and will call Aaron and Miriam, and they two will come forth. And he will say, Hear ye now, my word: If there shall be your prophet of Jehovah, in a vision I will be known to him; in a dream I will speak to him. Not so my servant Moses; he was faithful in all my house. Mouth to mouth I will speak to him, and in appearance and not in enigmas; and the portion of Jehovah shall he behold: and wherefore were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses? And the anger of Jehovah will kindle against them; and he will go. And the cloud removed from the tent; and behold, Miriam being leprous as snow: and Aaron will look upon Miriam, and behold, her being leprous And Aaron will say to Moses, With leave, my lord, now thou shalt not put upon us the sin in which we were foolish, and in which we sinned. Now shall she not be as the dead, which in his coming forth from the womb of his mother, and his flesh shall be half consumed? And Moses will cry to Jehovah, saying, God heal her now. And Jehovah will say to Moses, And her father spitting, spit in her face, shall she not be ashamed seven days? She shall be shut seven days without the camp, and afterward she shall be taken back. And Miriam shall be shut without the camp seven days, and the people removed not till Miriam was taken back.

And Jehoshabeath daughter of the king will take Joash son of Ahaziah, and she will steal him from the midst of the king's sons being slain, and give him and his nurse in a bed-chamber. And Jehoshabeath daughter of king Jehoram wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was sister of Ahaziah) will hide him from the face of Athaliah. and she slew him not.

And Jehosheba daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, will take Joash son of Ahaziah, and steal him from the midst of the king's sons being slain, him and his nurse in the bed-chamber, and they will hide him from the face of Athaliah, and he was not killed.

And a man from the house of Levi will go and take a daughter of Levi. And the woman will conceive and will bring forth a son; and she will see him that he is good, and she will hide him three months. And she will not be able any more to hide him, and she will take for him an ark of bulrush, and will pitch it with bitumen and with pitch, and she will put in it the child, and will put in the sedge by the lip of the river.read more.
And his sister will stand afar off to know what will be done to him. And the daughter of Pharaoh will come down to wash at the river; and her maids going by the side of the river: and she will see the ark in the midst of the sedge, and she will send her maid and she will take it. And she will open and will see the child: and behold, the boy weeping: And she will have pity upon him, and will say, This from the children of the Hebrews. And his sister will say to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse from the Hebrew women, and she will suckle the child for thee? And Pharaoh's daughter will say to her, Go. And she will go and call the child's mother.

And there will come to him all his brethren and all his sisters, and all knowing him before; and they will eat bread with him in his house: and they will deplore for him, and they will comfort him upon all the evil which Jehovah brought upon him: and they will give to him tack one weight, and each one ring of gold.

And a certain Lazarus was sick, from Bethany, of the town of Mary And Martha her sister. (And Mary was she having anointed the Lord with perfumed oil, and wiped his feet with her hairs, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) Then sent the sisters to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

And Judah will take a wife for Er his first-born, and her name Tamar And Er, Judah's first-born, will be evil in the eyes of Jehovah: and Jehovah will kill him. And Judah will say to Onan, go in to thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.read more.
And Onan will know that not to him will be the seed; and it was when he went in to his brother's wife, he destroyed upon the earth, not to give seed to his brother. And it will be evil in the eyes of Jehovah, what he did, and he will kill him also And Judah will say to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Sit a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son shall be great; (for he said, Lest this also shall die as his brethren.) And Tamar will go and will sit in her father's house.

And I place with you Phebe our sister, being servant of the church in Cenchrea:

And if a brother or sister be naked, and be failing of daily food, And any of you say to them, Retire in peace, be ye warmed and be ye fed; and ye give them not things fitting the body; what profit? So also faith, if it have not works, is dead by itself.

If I shall wait, hades is my house: in darkness I spread my bed. I called to the pit: Grave, thou my father: and to the worm, My mother, and my sister. And where now my hope? and my hope who shall regard it?read more.
They shall go down to the bars of hades if together we shall go down to the dust.

My son, watch my words, and thou shalt hide my commands with thee. Watch my commands, and live; and my law as the pupil of thine eyes. Bind them upon thy fingers, and write them upon the tablet of thine heartread more.
Say to wisdom, Thou my sister; and thou shalt call knowledge to understanding: To watch thyself from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings.

And Jehovah will say to me in the days of Josiah the king, Sawest thou what Israel turning back, did? She went up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and she will commit fornication there. And saying after she did all these, Thou shalt turn back to me. And she turned not back; and her faithless sister Judah will see it And I shall see for all the causes that Israel turning away committed adultery, I sent her away and I shall give a writing of her cutting off to her; and her faithless sister Judah was not afraid, and she will go and commit fornication, she also.read more.
And it was her fornication being light, and she will defile the land, and she will commit adultery with stones and with woods. And also in all this her faithless sister Judah turned not back to me with all the heart, but in falsehood, says Jehovah.

Behold, all using parables will use a parable against thee, saying, As the mother, the daughter. Thou thy mother's daughter loathing her husband and her sons; and thou the sister of thy sisters who loathed their husbands and their sons: your mother a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. Thine elder sister, Shomeron, she and her daughter dwelling upon thy left hand: and thy sister smaller than thou, dwelling from thy right hand, Sodom and her daughters.read more.
And thou wentest not in their ways, and thou didst not their abominations: loathing as a little, and thou wilt be corrupted above them in all thy ways. I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if Sodom thy sister did, she and her daughters, as thou didst, thou and thy daughters. Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, security of rest was to her and to her daughters, and she strengthened not the hand of the poor and needy. And they will be proud, and they will do abomination before me: and I shall take them away according to what I saw. And Shomeron sinned not according to half thy sins: and thou wilt multiply thine abominations above them, and thou wilt justify thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou didst. And thou also bear thy shame, who didst judge for thy sisters in thy sins which thou didst make abominable above them: they shall be justified more than thou: and also thou, be thou ashamed and bear thy shame in thy justifying thy sisters. And I turned back their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Shomeron and her daughters, and the captivity of thy captivities in their midst: So that thou shalt bear thy shame, and thou wert made ashamed of all which thou didst in thy comforting them. And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall turn back to their beginning, and Shomeron and her daughters shall turn back to their beginning, and thou and thy daughters shall turn back to your beginning. And thy sister Sodom was not for a hearing in thy mouth in the day of thy pride. Before thine evil shall be uncovered as the time of reproach of the daughters of Aram and all round about her, the daughters of the rovers despising thee from round about Thy wickedness and thine abominations, thou didst bear them, says Jehovah. For thus said the Lord Jehovah: And doing with thee according as thou didst who despised the oath to break the covenant And I remembered my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I set up to thee an eternal covenant And thou didst remember thy ways, and thou wert ashamed in thy receiving thy sisters great above thee, to the younger than thee: and I gave them to thee for daughters, and not from thy covenant And I set up my covenant with thee, and thou knewest that I am Jehovah. So that thou shalt remember, and thou wert ashamed, and there shall no more be to thee an opening of the mouth from the face of thy shame in my expiating for thee for all which thou didst, says the Lord Jehovah.

And he yet speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him. And a certain one said to him, Behold, thy mother, and thy brethren stand without, seeking to speak to thee. And he having answered, said to him speaking to him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?read more.
And having stretched forth his hand towards his disciples, he said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whoever should do the will of my Father, him in the heavens, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Then came his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, they sent to him, calling him. And the crowd sat about him, and they said to him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek thee. And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, and my brethren?read more.
And having looked round upon those sitting round about him, he says, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whoever should do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

If any come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, and yet also his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

And every one who lets go houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for the sake of my name, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.

And Jesus having answered, said, Truly I say to you, There is none who has left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for sake of me, and the good news, Except he should receive a hundred-fold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mother, and children, and fields, with expulsions; and in the time coming eternal life.