Bible Verses About Families

‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.”’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

His brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD.

May the LORD bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Miriam and her sister, Martha.

It was that Miriam who had anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

But when Yeshua heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

Now Yeshua loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in his house.

He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was immediately immersed, he and all his household.

He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.