Quotes About Family

For whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”

And they laughed at Him. After He had put them all outside, He took the childís father and mother and His own companions, and went in to see the child.

Isnít this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Arenít His sisters here with us as well?” And they took offense at Him.

Then Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”

The man brought Johnís head on a platter and presented it to the girl, who gave it to her mother.

For Moses said, ëHonor your father and your motherí and ëAnyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.í

But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ëWhatever you would have received from me is Corbaní (that is, a gift devoted to God),

he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother.

And she went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.

ëFor this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,

You know the commandments: ëDo not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.í”

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel

will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a manís brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brotherís widow and raise up offspring for him.

Now there were seven brothers. The first one married and died, leaving no children.

Then the second one married the widow, but he also died and left no children. And the third did likewise.

Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.

He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice at his birth,

Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.

where she entered the home of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.

Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.

When the time came for Elizabeth to have her child, she gave birth to a son.

Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.

On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.