35 Bible Verses about Christians Being Called Brothers

For both he who purifies them and they who are purified spring from one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

For consider, brothers, what happened when God called you. Not many of you were what men call wise, not many of you were influential, not many were of high birth.

For you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for the physical, but in love be slaves to one another.

So, for my part, brothers, I could not treat you as spiritual persons; I had to treat you just as creatures of flesh and blood, as babies in Christian living.

But I urge you all, brothers, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you say, and not to allow factions among you, but to be perfectly united in mind and judgment.

Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble,

Resist him and be strong in the faith, for you know that your brotherhood all over the world is having the same experience of suffering.

Therefore, my fellow-Christians, who have likewise heard the heavenly invitation, observe how faithful Jesus, the commissioner and high priest of our religion,

For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;

Paul, by the will of God called as an apostle of Jesus Christ, and our brother Sosthenes,

Jesus said to her, "You must not cling to me, for I have not yet gone up to my Father, but go to my brothers and say to them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

Ananias set out and went to the house, and there he laid his hands upon Saul, and said to him, "Saul, my brother, I have been sent by the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on your journey, so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the holy Spirit."

But the Jews who refused their message stirred up the heathen and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Some time after, Paul said to Barnabas, "Come, let us go back and revisit the brothers in each of the towns where we made the Lord's message known, to see how they are doing."

and who was highly thought of by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium.

I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.

to the devoted and steadfast Christian brothers in Colossae; God our Father bless you and give you peace.

For we know, brothers whom God so loves, that he has chosen you,

We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth,

For perhaps this is why you and he were parted for a while, that you might have him back forever, not as a slave any longer but more than a slave, a dear brother??ear especially to me, but how much dearer to you, both as a man and as a Christian!

For both he who purifies them and they who are purified spring from one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, and say, "I will tell your name to my brothers, In the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise";

You must find the greatest joy, my brothers, in being involved in various trials,

My brothers, do you try to combine faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with acts of partiality?

We know what love means from the fact that he laid down his life for us; so we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

Then each of them was given a white robe and they were told to be quiet a little while longer, until the number of their fellow-slaves and their brothers, who were to be killed as they had been, should be complete.

We charge you, brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives in idleness, instead of following the teaching you received from us.

My brothers, if any one of you is led astray from the truth, and someone brings him back,

Since then, brothers, we have free access to the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

But in sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their too scrupulous consciences, you are really sinning against Christ.

Have we not a right to take a Christian wife about with us, like the rest of the apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas?

We do not want you to be under any misapprehension, brothers, about those who are falling asleep. You must not grieve for them, as others do who have no hope.

I, John, your brother and companion in the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance that Jesus brings, found myself on the island called Patmos, for uttering God's message and testifying to Jesus.

Greet all the brothers with a sacred kiss.

See to it, my brothers, that no one of you has a wicked, unbelieving heart, that turns away from the ever-living God,

God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give the brothers peace and love, with faith.