Brotherly Love

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

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;

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

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

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

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

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;

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

`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 →

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

and whether one member doth suffer, suffer with <FI>it<Fi> do all the members, or one member is glorified, rejoice with <FI>it<Fi> do all the members;

And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of <FI>my<Fi> writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

let all your things be done in love.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

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;

we--we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

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

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

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;

because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

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.

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

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 now there doth remain faith, hope, love--these three; and the greatest of these <FI>is<Fi> love.

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

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

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

`These things I command you, that ye love one another;

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love; — read the full passage →

Hearken, my brethren beloved, did not God choose the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the reign that He promised to those loving Him?

and to love Him out of all the heart, and out of all the understanding, and out of all the soul, and out of all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the whole burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.'

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength--this <FI>is<Fi> the first command;

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like <FI>it<Fi> , this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; --greater than these there is no other command.'

`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 we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;

and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

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

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

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

`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> .

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

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

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

for all the law in one word is fulfilled--in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good; — read the full passage →

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

`If ye love me, my commands keep,

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

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,

And he answering said, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of all thy soul, and out of all thy strength, and out of all thy understanding, and thy neighbour as thyself.'

`And now, Israel, what is Jehovah thy God asking from thee, except 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 →

`And thou hast known that Jehovah thy God He <FI>is<Fi> God, the faithful God, keeping the covenant, and the kindness, to those loving Him, and to those keeping His commands--to a thousand generations,

and this is the love, that we may walk according to His commands; this is the command, even as ye did hear from the beginning, that in it ye may walk,

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well;

be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled, — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

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 God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;

for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

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

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Better <FI>is<Fi> an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; — read the full passage →

And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who <FI>are<Fi> in the world--to the end he loved them.

And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding-- — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

And Jehovah appeareth unto him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about the heat of the day; — read the full passage →

And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings, — read the full passage →