Bible Verses about “cousins”
The Bible contains 50 verses about cousins across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.”
“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.”
“Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:”
“Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
“¶ None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I [am] the LORD.”
“The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's daughter, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs [is] thine own nakedness.”
“The nakedness of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it [is] thy father's nakedness.”
“The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she [is] thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.”
“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she [is] thy father's near kinswoman.”
“The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, [whether she be] born at home, or born abroad, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.”
“The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she [is] thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.”
“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she [is] thine aunt.”
“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she [is] thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.”
“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it [is] thy brother's nakedness.”
“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for she [is] thy mother's near kinswoman.”
“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; [for] they [are] her near kinswomen: it [is] wickedness.”
“Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it [is] confusion.”
“Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time].”
“And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.”
“¶ Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.”
“Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.”
“After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.”
“Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:”
“Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:”
“And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.”
“And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.”
“(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)”
“That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that [were] before you.”
“¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,”
“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.”
“Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I [am] the LORD your God.”
“Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I [am] the LORD.”
“For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall be cut off from among their people.”
“Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that [ye] commit not [any one] of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I [am] the LORD your God.”
“For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.”
“¶ It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.”
“And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram [were] an hundred and thirty and seven years.”
“A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.”
“And yet indeed [she is] my sister; she [is] the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.”
“Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.”
“¶ Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD [remaineth] under curtains.”
“Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that [is] in thine heart; for God [is] with thee.”
“And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,”
“Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:”
“For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tabernacle [to another].”
“Wheresoever I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why have ye not built me an house of cedars?”
“Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, [even] from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:”
“And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that [are] in the earth.”