Bible Verses About Family Reunion

It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.

And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father’s house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father’s house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?

For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:

Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord.

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!

That I may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.

And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.

Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.