Bible Verses About Brotherly Love
This collection includes 50 passages about Brotherly Love. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Scripture Passages
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my fatherโs house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Let brotherly love continue.
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
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