Bible Verses About Family Reunions

And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the Lord.

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

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,

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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:

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

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

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

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.

But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.

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.

But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

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;

Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.