Bible Verses About Families

That we should say thus much to thee from him: I beseech thee to forget the wickedness of thy brethren, and the sin and malice they practised against thee: we also pray thee, to forgive the servants of the God of thy father this wickedness. And when Joseph heard this, he wept.

And his brethren came to him; and worshipping prostrate on the ground, they said: We are thy servants.

And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?

You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.

The wicked have wrought upon my back: they have lengthened their iniquity.

The Lord who is just will cut the necks of sinners:

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Sion.

Let them be as grass upon the tops of houses: which withereth before it be plucked up:

Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of the town of Mary and of Martha her sister.

(And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister Mary and Lazarus.

But they said: believe in the Lord Jesus: and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

And they preached the word of the Lord to him and to all that were in his house.

And he, taking them the same hour of the night, washed their stripes: and himself was baptized, and all his house immediately.

And when he had brought them into his own house, he laid the table for them: and rejoiced with all his house, believing God.