50 Bible Verses About Relationships

Bible verses about relationships make us realize our responsibility. These Bible verses tell us that our different relationships have different rights and we have to fulfill these rights. Parents, spouses, children, friends, brothers and sisters all come in these relationships. These relationships should be conducted with love, understanding, responsibility, respect and compassion. God has given us orders. To manage different relationships in different ways, God has said that those who do not have good relationships with their relatives, their faith is also not acceptable. In the Bible, there are many such personalities in whose lives we learn about the duties and rights of responsibility in terms of relationships. Their lives teach us how to manage relationships well. Including them are Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Cain and Abel, Ruth and Boaz.

Relationship With Family

Verse#1

Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

Book

Old-Testament

Reference

Exodus 20:12

Explanation

God sent ten commandments to Moses. to obey and honor parents. If a person serves his mother and father, his life will be prolonged. Every human wants to have a long life. If he wants to live longer, he should obey his parents.

Verse#2

Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

Book

Old-Testament

Reference

Proverbs 22:6

Explanation

In this verse, Solomon says that God has made the relationship between children and parents very deep. Parents nurture their children. Parents should teach their children the teachings and when they grow up, they will continue to follow the same teachings and be steadfast.

Verse#3

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Book

Old-Testament

Reference

Genesis 2:24

Explanation

The relationship between a husband and wife is mentioned in this verse of the Bible. A man goes to live with his wife after getting married, leaving his parents home. This verse makes it clear that a husband and wife’s connection is significant and powerful.

Verse#4

These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Book

Old-Testament

Reference

Deuteronomy 6:6-7

Explanation

In this verse, Moses states that a person who learns teachings should pass them on to his offspring so that they can learn too. This demonstrated that parents have a responsibility to teach their children about religion.

Verse#5

Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.

Book

Old-Testament

Reference

Psalm 127:3-5

Explanation

In this verse, David says that children are a blessing from God. When a husband and wife have children, they are the cause of happiness.

Verse#6

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.” Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

Book

New-Testament

Reference

Ephesians 6:1-4

Explanation

In this verse Paul advises that God wants children to obey their parents. So they should listen to their parents and build a strong relationship.

Verse#7

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.

Book

New-Testament

Reference

Colossians 3:20-21

Explanation

Paul also advises in this Bible verse that children should obey their parents because God wants children to obey and prefer their parents. 

Verse#8

Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’

Book

New-Testament

Reference

Matthew 19:19

Explanation

In this scripture, Jesus tells children to always respect their parents and to love their neighbors as they love themselves.

Verse#9

Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Book

New-Testament

Reference

1 Timothy 5:8

Explanation

Paul says in this Bible verse that people who don’t care about their family wasn’t supposed to have faith. Additionally, God is upset with people who neglect their families.

Verse#10

I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.

Book

New-Testament

Reference

2 Timothy 1:5

Explanation

In this verse Paul says that Timothy‘s faith was very sincere. And this faith was first in his grandmother, then it came to his mother, and then it came to him.

Relationship With Friends

Verse#11

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.

Book

Old-Testament

Reference

Proverbs 17:17

Explanation

In this verse, Solomon talks about the friendship and says that the friendship is very beautiful. Friends always love each other and whenever a difficult time comes to someone, they support each other like brothers.

Verse#12

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Book

Old-Testament

Reference

Proverbs 18:24

Explanation

Solomon explains in this verse that both positive and negative friendships can affect a person’s life. A good friend is more deep than a brother, and a bad friend ruins a person.

Verse#13

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.

Book

Old-Testament

Reference

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

Explanation

Solomon states in this Bible verse that two people living together is preferable to one person living alone. When one is struggling, the other helps him. The friendship relationship is similar like that. In times of need, when one friend is alone, another friend is there to support and help him.

Verse#14

When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

Book

Old-Testament

Reference

Job 2:11

Explanation

This verse describes Job’s close friends. Job’s friends support him during difficult times.

Verse#15

As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

Book

Old-Testament

Reference

Proverbs 27:17

Explanation

Solomon states in this verse that iron shapes iron and slices iron. In the same way, one individual greatly influences another. With love and effort, one person can make another better.

Verse#16

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

Book

New-Testament

Reference

John 15:12-15

Explanation

Jesus says that I command you to love one another because love has a great importance. There should be so much love between friends that they should lay down their lives for each other. In the verse, Jesus is calling people as his friends and says that he is not giving orders like servants but he considers people as his friends. And as a friend he is conveying God’s message to people and exhorting them to live in love with one another.

Verse#17

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

Book

New-Testament

Reference

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Explanation

In this bible verse, Paul advises that we should always help and encourage others. A human should establish friendship with other human beings and should love others.

Verse#18

Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.

Book

New-Testament

Reference

Romans 12:10

Explanation

In this verse, Paul says that one should live with love. In friendship, people should respect others more than themselves.

Verse#19

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.

Book

New-Testament

Reference

Hebrews 10:24

Explanation

According to this verse, we should always urge others to do good things with love. People will form a friendship when we offer them love. This pure bond can inspire people to perform good things.

Verse#20

Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

Book

New-Testament

Reference

Colossians 3:13

Explanation

Paul tells us in this verse to never get revenge on friends. In the same way that God forgives us rather than punishes us for our mistakes.

Relationships And 30 Biblical Personalities

Adam And Eve

Adam was created first by God, but due to his loneliness, God create Eve. But because of Satan’s cleverness and seducing power, they made a mistake and got astray.

Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:22-24)

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. (Genesis 3:6)

Abraham and Sarah

Sarah and Abraham were married to each other. When they grew old, God gave them a son named Isaac.

Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my lord is old, will I now have this pleasure?” Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.” Sarah was afraid, so she lied and said, “I did not laugh.” But he said, “Yes, you did laugh.” (Genesis 18:11-15)

Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac  to the son Sarah bore him. (Genesis 21:1-3)

Isaac And Rebecca

Rebecca and Isaac were much in love. They were in a husband-wife relationship. They had no child. After they prayed, God gave them two children, Jacob and Esau.

Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. (Genesis 24:67)

Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. (Genesis 25:21)

Jacob And Rachel

Jacob loved his wife Rachel. Due to Rachel Jacob made many sacrifices and lived a combined life of happiness and sadness.

So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her. (Genesis 29:20)

Then they moved on from Bethel. While they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and had great difficulty. And as she was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, “Don’t despair, for you have another son.” As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin. So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). (Genesis 35:16-19)

Joseph And His Brothers

Joseph got betrayed by his brothers but he forgave them and showed love.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Come close to me.” When they had done so, he said, “I am your brother Joseph, the one you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. (Genesis 45:4-5)

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. (Genesis 50:20)

Moses And Jethro

Jethro was Moses‘ father-in-law but Moses considered him as a father. They had a great love. Jethro always supported him with wisdom.

Moses’ father-in-law replied, “What you are doing is not good. You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their disputes to him. Teach them his decrees and instructions, and show them the way they are to live and how they are to behave. But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you. If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will go home satisfied.” Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said. (Exodus 18:17-24)

Now Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place about which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good things to Israel.” He answered, “No, I will not go; I am going back to my own land and my own people.” But Moses said, “Please do not leave us. You know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes. If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the Lord gives us.” (Numbers 10:29-32)

Ruth And Noami

Ruth was the daughter-in-law of Noami. They loved each other. When Ruth’s husband was dead, Noami asked Ruth to leave her but she never left her mother-in-law alone.

But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.” (Ruth 1:16-17)

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. The women said to Naomi: “Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a guardian-redeemer. May he become famous throughout Israel! He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and who is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.” Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him. The women living there said, “Naomi has a son!” And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David. (Ruth 4:13-17)

David And Jonathan

Saul (first king of Israel) was the father of Jonathan. Israel’s second king was David. David and Jonathan had a strong friendship and were always there for one another but Saul didn’t like their friendship..

After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself. From that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return home to his family. And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself. (1 Samuel 18:1-3)

Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord is witness between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants forever.’” Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town. (1 Samuel 20:42)

Elijah And Elisha

There was a teacher-student interaction between them. Elijah‘s successor was Elisha. 

When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken from you?” “Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied. “You have asked a difficult thing,” Elijah said, “yet if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be yours—otherwise, it will not.” As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!” And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his garment and tore it in two. (2 Kings 2:9-12)

So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him. Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. “Let me kiss my father and mother goodbye,” he said, “and then I will come with you.” “Go back,” Elijah replied. “What have I done to you?” So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became his servant. (1 Kings 19:19-21)

Hannah And Samuel

Hannah didn’t have a child, but after praying to God, he granted her one. Samuel lived his life according to the Lord’s will. 

I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there. (1 Samuel 1:27-28)

But Samuel was ministering before the Lord—a boy wearing a linen ephod. Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice. (1 Samuel 2:18-19)

Mordecai  And Esther

Esther had no father and mother. Mordecai brought her as his own daughter. Esther became a queen but she always respected him as a father.

Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This young woman, who was also known as Esther, had a lovely figure and was beautiful. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died. (Esther 2:7)

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:14)

Mary And Martha

Mary and Martha were sisters and had a strong bond between them. They were disciples of Jesus.

As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” (Luke 10:38-42)

When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. (John 11:32-33)

Jesus And Disciples

Jesus loved his disciples so much. He considered them as friends.

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. (John 15:15)

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20)

Paul And Timothy

Timothy was a disciple of Paul. Paul always guided Timothy on every step. Timothy was too young but he started to convey the message of Christianity.

To Timothy, my dear son: Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. (2 Timothy 1:2)

I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered when I receive news about you. I have no one else like him, who will show genuine concern for your welfare. For everyone looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. But you know that Timothy has proved himself, because as a son with his father he has served with me in the work of the gospel. (Philippians 2:19-22)

Boaz And Ruth

Ruth’s husband was dead and she started to live with her mother-in-law. Noami guided Ruth and she married Boaz. Ruth and Boaz lived a very enjoyable life. 

Boaz replied, “I’ve been told all about what you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband—how you left your father and mother and your homeland and came to live with a people you did not know before. May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.” (Ruth 2:11-12)

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son. (Ruth 4:13)

Frequently Asked Questions

Conclusion

These Bible verses remind us that we have numerous relationships in life, and they should be treated with love, respect, and responsibility. It is important to respect and obey our parents. We should love and be faithful to our wife. Compassion should be shown to children. Friends should be caring, neighbors should be loved, and their needs should be met. These bible verses teach us the value of relationships and their rights.