Quotes about Relative

He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.

Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”

And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”

And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.

Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.

Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative truth but not its twin.

Yes, it is true that I am a kinsman-redeemer, but there is a redeemer nearer than I.

Now before this, Eliashib the priest, a relative of Tobiah, had been put in charge of the storerooms of the house of our God

Look, even Elizabeth your relative has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren is in her sixth month.

Since the Bible has quite a lot to say about truth—and since it also has plenty to say about how particular individuals relate to that truth—it has become easy to imagine that its claims can and should be reduced to particular, and highly relative and situational, angles of vision.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.