Bible Verses About Families

Thus ye do say to Joseph, I pray thee, bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for they have done thee evil; and now, bear, we pray thee, with the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father;' and Joseph weepeth in their speaking unto him.

And his brethren also go and fall before him, and say, `Lo, we are to thee for servants.'

And Joseph saith unto them, `Fear not, for am I in the place of God?

As for you, ye devised against me evil--God devised it for good, in order to do as at this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

and now, fear not: I do nourish you and your infants;' and he comforteth them, and speaketh unto their heart.

Thy wife is as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.

Lo, surely thus is the man blessed who is fearing Jehovah.

Jehovah doth bless thee out of Zion, Look, then, on the good of Jerusalem, All the days of thy life,

And see the sons of thy sons! Peace on Israel!

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister--

and it was Mary who did anoint the Lord with ointment, and did wipe his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ailing--

therefore sent the sisters unto him, saying, `Sir, lo, he whom thou dost love is ailing;'

and Jesus having heard, said, `This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'

And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,

and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved--thou and thy house;'

and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household;

and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe them from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently,

having brought them also into his house, he set food before them , and was glad with all the household, he having believed in God.