Bible Verses about “family and friends”
The Bible contains 22 verses about family and friends across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”
“Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.”
“As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.”
“Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate. A Song of Ascents.”
“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
“In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;”
“"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”
“Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.”
“You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”
“A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.”
“A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.”
“So then, as we have opportunity, let's do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.”
“No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.”
“You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.”
“"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.”
“See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!”
“For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."”
“He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!”
“But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"”
“Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.”