Topic
Brotherly Love
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In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
Let brotherly love continue.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another. — read the full passage →
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
Let all that you do be done in love.
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →
“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. — read the full passage →
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.
We love him, because he first loved us.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”
“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.
We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
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 is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.
Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
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, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →
Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
If you love me, keep my commandments.
Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, — read the full passage →
Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.
Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.
For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →
But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.
Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. — read the full passage →
Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ — read the full passage →
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.
Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day. — read the full passage →
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings; — read the full passage →
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