Sisterly Love

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

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?

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

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

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,

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.

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;

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

let all your things be done in love.

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

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 →

According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love; — read the full passage →

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

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;

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger. — read the full passage →

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.'

for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'

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,

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

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

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;

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,

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

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

if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

for whoever may do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.'

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.

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

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

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 →

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

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.

`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 →

honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

`If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee, — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 →

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

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia: — read the full passage →

for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?

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

And unto any dead man they come not for uncleanness, but for father, and for mother, and for son, and for daughter, for brother, for sister who hath not been to a man, they defile themselves.

he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now; — read the full passage →

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

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

Let brotherly love remain;

`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> .

and Jehosheba daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, taketh Joash son of Ahaziah, and stealeth him out of the midst of the sons of the king who are put to death, him and his nurse, in the inner part of the bed-chambers, and they hide him from the presence of Athaliah, and he hath not been put to death,

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

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

`Say ye to your brethren--Ammi, And to your sisters--Ruhamah.

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

`Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, --and all the people have said, Amen.

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

let no one seek his own--but each another's.

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

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

A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.

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; — read the full passage →

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?

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

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.

and their sisters Zeruiah and Abigail. And sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asah-El--three.

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.'

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,

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister--

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--

`And a man who taketh his sister, a daughter of his father or daughter of his mother, and he hath seen her nakedness, and she seeth his nakedness: it is a shame; and they have been cut off before the eyes of the sons of their people; the nakedness of his sister he hath uncovered; his iniquity he beareth.

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

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

And come unto him do all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him, and they gave to him each one kesitah, and each one ring of gold.

and the name of Amram's wife is Jochebed, daughter of Levi, whom <FI>one<Fi> hath born to Levi in Egypt; and she beareth to Amram Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

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

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

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

Let brotherly love remain; — 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, — 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 →

Precious she <FI>is<Fi> above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens. — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping, — read the full passage →

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 →

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.

And Jacob dwelleth in the land of his father's sojournings--in the land of Canaan. — read the full passage →

Her ways <FI>are<Fi> ways of pleasantness, And all her paths <FI>are<Fi> peace.