Bible Verses about โrelativesโ
The Bible contains 41 verses about relatives across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBut if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.โ
โBeloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.โ
โThere is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.โ
โHe who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.โ
โBut when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;โ
โAll who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.โ
โand you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous."โ
โHe also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don't call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.โ
โBut indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"โ
โIsaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;โ
โWhat if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,โ
โOr hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?โ
โand that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,โ
โFor being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,โ
โI tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,โ
โSo then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.โ
โFor the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."โ
โfor He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."โ
โYou will say then to me, "Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?"โ
โNot only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.โ
โit was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."โ
โEven as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."โ
โSo then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.โ
โus, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?โ
โAs he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."โ
โ"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"โ
โAs Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."โ
โWhat shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;โ
โthat I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.โ
โFor I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers' sake, my relatives according to the flesh,โ
โwho are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;โ
โof whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.โ
โBut it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.โ
โNeither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."โ
โThat is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.โ
โFor this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."โ
โWhat shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!โ
โFor he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."โ
โbut Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.โ
โWhy? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;โ
โeven as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."โ
