You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will have some of you put to death.

Greet Herodion, my compatriot. Greet those in the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my compatriots.

“And look, your relative Elizabeth has also become pregnant with a son in her old age – although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month!

Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.

but (because they assumed that he was in their group of travelers) they went a day’s journey. Then they began to look for him among their relatives and acquaintances.

The following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting anxiously for them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people, my fellow countrymen,

Then Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own house.”

One of the high priest’s slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Did I not see you in the orchard with him?”

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my compatriots and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.