Brother

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love?

Let brotherly love remain;

A man with friends <FI>is<Fi> to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together!

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

Then Peter having come near to him, said, `Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him--till seven times?' — read the full passage →

I am in distress for thee, my brother Jonathan, Very pleasant wast thou to me; Wonderful was thy love to me, Above the love of women!

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

`And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> to one of these my brethren--the least--to me ye did <FI>it<Fi> .

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

Every one who is hating his brother--a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love? — read the full passage →

he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now; — read the full passage →

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

so also my heavenly Father will do to you, if ye may not forgive each one his brother from your hearts their trespasses.'

Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better <FI>is<Fi> a near neighbour than a brother afar off.

`Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified <FI>are<Fi> all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

`If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee, — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.

And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Where <FI>is<Fi> Abel thy brother?' and he saith, `I have not known; my brother's keeper--I?'

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves-- — read the full passage →

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

let us not become vain-glorious--one another provoking, one another envying!

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

to send out each his man-servant, and each his maid-servant--the Hebrew and the Hebrewess--free, so as not to lay service on them, any on a Jew his brother;

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

A brother transgressed against is as a strong city, And contentions as the bar of a palace.

Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

saying, `I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;'

We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;

Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

Right <FI>it is<Fi> not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to <FI>do anything<Fi> in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ; — read the full passage →

these all were continuing with one accord in prayer and supplication, with women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; — read the full passage →

And he said also to him who did call him, `When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee; — read the full passage →

for whoever may do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.'

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire. — read the full passage →

And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon named Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea--for they were fishers--

And it cometh to pass, when he finisheth to speak unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan hath been bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loveth him as his own soul.

`Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him. — read the full passage →

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

and of the multitude of those who did believe the heart and the soul was one, and not one was saying that anything of the things he had was his own, but all things were to them in common. — read the full passage →

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

`And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

and his sisters--are they not all with us? whence, then, to this one all these?'

Then Jesus was led up to the wilderness by the Spirit, to be tempted by the Devil, — read the full passage →

`Say ye to your brethren--Ammi, And to your sisters--Ruhamah.

For as <FI>at<Fi> mount Perazim rise doth Jehovah, As <FI>at<Fi> the valley in Gibeon He is troubled, To do His work--strange <FI>is<Fi> His work, And to do His deed--strange <FI>is<Fi> His deed.'

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,