Sibling Love

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?

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

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

Jehovah doth fight for you, and ye keep silent.'

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

but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.

in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

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.

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

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is; — read the full passage →

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

`If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof <FI>is<Fi> brutish.

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,

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go--first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.

Because Jehovah loveth Jacob, And hath fixed again on Israel, And given them rest on their own land, And joined hath been the sojourner to them, And they have been admitted to the house of Jacob. — read the full passage →

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

`He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

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;

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

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 →

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

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

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

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.

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

let all your things be done in love.

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 →

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

remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

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. — read the full passage →

and this <FI>is<Fi> the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

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

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

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

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

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

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

`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 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; — read the full passage →

is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? — read the full passage →

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? — read the full passage →

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;

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

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

Let brotherly love remain;

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

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

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

Every one who is hating his brother--a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon named Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea--for they were fishers--

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

So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved.

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

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

`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 Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, `Give me sons, and if there is none--I die.'

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;

and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food, — read the full passage →

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;

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

And it came to pass, in their going on, that he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman, by name Martha, did receive him into her house, — read the full passage →

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

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,

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

say, I pray thee, thou <FI>art<Fi> my sister, so that it is well with me because of thee, and my soul hath lived for thy sake.'

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

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 →

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

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.'

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

let us not become vain-glorious--one another provoking, one another envying!

And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;

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

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;

And while he was yet speaking to the multitudes, lo, his mother and brethren had stood without, seeking to speak to him, — read the full passage →

`None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

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

Say to wisdom, `My sister Thou <FI>art<Fi> .' And cry to understanding, `Kinswoman!'

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; — read the full passage →

and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us,

A man with friends <FI>is<Fi> to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

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

To the Overseer. --By a servant of Jehovah, by David, who hath spoken to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul, and he saith: --I love Thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

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.

Right <FI>it is<Fi> not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to <FI>do anything<Fi> in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us; — read the full passage →

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;

Brethren, a new command I write not to you, but an old command, that ye had from the beginning--the old command is the word that ye heard from the beginning;

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing,

and of doing good, and of fellowship, be not forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

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,

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 →

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

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,