17 Bible Verses about Family And Friends

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

and a man's enemies will be those of his own household.'

They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who is called by that name."

When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

Jesus did not let him, but said, "Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you."

Then he also said to the one who invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers, your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.

And if you greet only your brethren, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say farewell to those at my home."

So he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,

"Return to your home, and tell how much God has done for you." And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how much Jesus had done for him.

"If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.

But he said to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."