61 Bible Verses about Brotherly Love

Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him two. Give to the one asking thee, and do not turn away from the one wishing to borrow from thee.

The one receiving a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive the reward of a prophet; and the one receiving a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive the reward of a righteous man. And whosoever may give one of these little ones only a cup of cold water, in the name of a disciple, truly I say unto you, He can not lose his reward.

honor the father and the mother, and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in; was naked, and ye clothed me: was sick, and ye visited me: was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then the righteous will respond to Him, saying; Lord, when saw we thee then hungry, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?read more.
And when saw we thee then a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? But when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

For whosoever may give you a cup of water in my name, because you are Christ's, truly I say unto you, can not lose his reward.

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. And the second is like unto it; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these.

And love Him with all the heart, and with all the mind, and with all the strength, and to love thy neighbor as thyself is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.

And as you wish that the people may do unto you, do ye unto them even likewise. If you love those who love you, what grace is there to you? for even sinners love those who love them. And if you may do good to those doing good to you, what grace is there to you? for sinners also do the same.read more.
And if you may lend to those from whom you may hope to receive, what grace is there to you? for sinners lend to sinners, that they may receive back the equivalent. Moreover love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest: because He is good to the ungrateful and wicked.

And he responding said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with divine love from all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.

But he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor? Jesus responding said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho; and fell among thieves, who indeed having stripped him of his raiment, administered blows, went away, leaving him half dead. And by chance a certain priest came down that way: and seeing him, passed by on the other side.read more.
And likewise also a Levite, being at the place, coming and seeing, passed by on the other side. And a certain Samaritan, on a journey, came near him: and seeing, had compassion on him, and having come to him, he bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine: and having mounted him on his own beast, carried him to a tavern, and cared for him. And on the morrow, taking out two denaria, gave them to the host, and said, Care for him; and whatsoever you expend in addition, on my return, I will pay you. Which one of these three seems to you to have been the neighbor of him who fell among the thieves? And he said, The one having done mercy with him. And Jesus said to him, Go, thou, and do likewise.

If then I, your Lord and Master, washed your feet, you ought also to wash the feet of one another. For I have given unto you an example, that you may also do as I have done to you.

I give unto a new commandment, That you must love one another with divine love; as I have loved you with divine love, that you must also love one another with divine love: in this shall all know that you are my disciples, if you may have divine love one with another.

This is my commandment, that you may love one another, as I loved you. No one has greater love than this, that he may lay down his soul for his friends.

I command these things unto you, that you must love one another with divine love.

for scarcely will one die for a righteous man; for perhaps some one even dares to die for a good man.

Let love be free from hypocrisy. Abhorring the evil, cleaving to the good: kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;

Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep. Have the same mind toward one another, not thinking high things, but condescending to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Owe no man anything, but to love one another with divine love: for the one loving another with divine love has fulfilled the law. For, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet, and if there is any other commandment, it is fulfilled in this word, in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself with divine love. Divine love works no evil to its neighbor: for divine love is the fulfilling of the law.

Then therefore we pursue the things belonging to peace, and edification towards one another.

it is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles.

But we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor in that which is good, unto edification;

But may the God of patience and consolation grant unto you to think the same things among one another with reference to Christ Jesus.

If indeed meat causes my brother to stumble, I never eat any more meat, in order that I may not lay a stumblingblock in the way of my brother.

Let no one seek his own, but that of another.

If I may speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not divine love, I have become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not divine love, I am nothing. And if I give all my goods to feed the poor, and if I may give my body that I shall be burnt, and have not divine love, I am profited as to nothing.read more.
Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of itself, is not puffed up, does not behave itself uncomely, seeks not its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but it rejoices in the truth; it bears all things, it believes all things, it hopes all things, it endures all things. Divine love never falls: but whether there are prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there are tongues, they shall cease; whether there is knowledge, it shall vanish away.

But now abide faith, hope, divine love, these three; but the greatest of these is divine love.

Let all your affairs be in divine love.

But if we are troubled it is in behalf of your consolation and salvation; if we are comforted, it is in behalf of your consolation, working in you through the endurance of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

as you have also known us in part, because we are your glorying, as you ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

For you were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty unto an occasion to the flesh, but through divine love serve one another.

But the fruit of the Spirit is divine love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

Let us not be fond of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Brethren, if indeed a man may be overtaken in some transgression, you who are spiritual, perfect such an one in the spirit of meekness; watching yourself, lest you may also be tempted. Bear the burdens of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Then therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in divine love;

But be ye kind toward one another, merciful, forgiving one another, as indeed God in Christ forgave you.

and walk about in divine love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet savor.

fill my joy, that you may think the same thing, having the same divine love, being like-minded, thinking this one thing;

We give thanks to God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, always praying for you, having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and the divine love which you have toward all the saints.

Therefore, as elect of God, holy and beloved, put on affections of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; forbearing one another and forgiving one another, if any one may have a quarrel against any one; as Christ also forgave you, so indeed do you likewise: and in all these things put on divine love, which is the bond of perfection.

and the Lord fill you and cause you to superabound in divine love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also do towards you;

But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another with divine love;

Therefore exhort one another, and edify either the other, as you indeed are doing.

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the divine love which you manifested in his name, having ministered to the saints, and ministering.

and let us recognize one another in the provocation of divine love and good works:

Let brotherly love continue. Forget not hospitality: for by it some having entertained angels were incognizant. Remember those bound, as having been bound along with them; those suffering persecutions, as you yourselves being also in the body.

If indeed you keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor with divine love as thyself, you do well.

Having purified your souls through obedience of the truth unto unhypocritical, brotherly love, fervently from the heart love one another with divine love:

Honor all people; love the brotherhood with divine love; fear God; honor the king.

And finally, all being like-minded, sympathetic, loving the brethren, merciful, humble: not giving evil for evil, or railing for railing: but on the contrary blessing; because unto this you have been called, that you may inherit the blessing.

before all things having divine love stedfast toward one another; because divine love covers a multitude of sins:

and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness divine love.

The one saying that he is in the light, and hating his brother, is in the darkness until now. The one loving his brother with divine love abides in the light, and there is no stumbling in him. But the one hating his brother is in darkness, and walks about in darkness, and does not know whither he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love. Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we must love one another, not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother; and on account of what did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.read more.
And be not astonished, brother, if the world hates you.

In this we know the divine love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. Whosoever may have the sustenance of the world, and see his brother having need, and shut up his sympathies from him, how dwells the divine love of God in him? Little children, let us love with divine love not in word, nor in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

And this is his commandment, that we may believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and we may love one another with divine love, as he has given to us commandment.

Beloved, let us love one another with divine love: because divine love is of God; and the one loving with divine love has been born of God, and knows God.

Beloved, if God so loved us with divine love, we ought also to love one another with divine love. No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another with divine love, God abides in us, and his divine love has been made perfect in us.

If any one may say, I love God with divine love, and may hate his brother, he is a liar: for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, with divine love, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen, with divine love. And we have this precept from him, that the one loving God with divine love also loves his brother with divine love.

Every one believing that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God: and every one loving with divine love him who begat, also loves him who has been begotten of him, with divine love. In this we know that we love the children of God with divine love, when we love God with divine love and keep his commandments.

And now I entreat thee, O Cyria, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another with divine love.