Bible Verses About Siblings

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s 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.

Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

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 thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!

And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper?

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.

It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!