Brothers

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

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.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

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:

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

“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.’

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 →

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council; and whoever shall say, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News, — read the full passage →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

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.

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For whoever does the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.”

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother. — read the full passage →

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. — read the full passage →

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

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? — read the full passage →

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

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers, — 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.

Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; — read the full passage →

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now. — read the full passage →

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. — read the full passage →

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment. — read the full passage →

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins, — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

We love him, because he first loved us. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

But of the other apostles I saw no one, except James, the Lord’s brother.

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. — read the full passage →

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” — read the full passage →

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

Aren’t all of his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all of these things?”

The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God? — read the full passage →

Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

“Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’

Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”