Brotherly Love

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

Let brotherly love continue.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

Let all your things be done with charity.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

These things I command you, that ye love one another.

But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. — read the full passage →

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

We love him, because he first loved us.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, — read the full passage →

Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. — read the full passage →

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. — read the full passage →

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.

As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; — read the full passage →

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; — read the full passage →