Loving Your Brother And Sister

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

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

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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

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

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

“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.

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

“‘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.

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

Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

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

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

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?

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

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

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.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. — read the full passage →

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

“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.’

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

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

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

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

“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’

Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

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

Let all that you do be done in love.

“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

They shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister who has had no husband, they may defile themselves.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. — read the full passage →

Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food, — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

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.

Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister?’ She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this.”

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

“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 →

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

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,

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

“‘If a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity.

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 no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

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 →

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 →

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Cain, “Where is Abel, your brother?” He said, “I don’t know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep. — read the full passage →

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him. — read the full passage →

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one; — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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,

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. — read the full passage →

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.

The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. — read the full passage →

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Absalom her brother said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.” So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.

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:

Let brotherly love continue.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;

His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.