Bible Verses About Kindred

And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.

And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

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.

But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?

And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.

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

The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,

The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

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,

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

Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.

Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.

And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.

And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.

But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.

And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.

But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.

These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.