Brotherly Love

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor 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, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

Let love of the brethren continue.

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

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even 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 likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

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

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

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even 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 suffereth, all the members suffer with it; or one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

Let all that ye do be done in love.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness.

Hereby know we love, 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 out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

A friend loveth at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

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

No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

For this is the message which 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 children of God; and such we are. For this cause 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 on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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

Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

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

and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.

above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

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

Let love of the brethren continue. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

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

Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up 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.

We love, because he first loved us.

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

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

Forget not to show love unto 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 also do toward you;

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love 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 after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

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

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

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.

Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

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

There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and 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 all discernment;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

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

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

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel: 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, ye will 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 ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to 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 neighbor as thyself.

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

Know therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

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

Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove 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 the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister.

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

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; But he that harpeth on a matter separateth chief friends.

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

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love 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 begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

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

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

And he 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 to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are 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.

Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

And Jehovah appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre, as 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 enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings; — read the full passage →