36 Bible Verses about Sibling Love

Indeed, we have this Command from God-- 'He who loves God must also love his Brother.'

May God, the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ give our Brothers peace, and love linked with faith.

He who loves his Brother is always in the Light, and there is nothing within him to cause him to stumble;

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Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

Yes, Brother, let me gain something from you because of your union with the Lord. Cheer my heart by your Christlike spirit.

I have indeed found great joy and encouragement in your love, knowing, as I do, how the hearts of Christ's People have been cheered, brother, by you.

If a man says 'I love God,' and yet hates his Brother, he is a liar; for the man who does not love his Brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

"If any man comes to me and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes and his very life, he can be no disciple of mine.

We have learned to know what love is from this--that Christ laid down his life on our behalf. Therefore we also ought to lay down our lives on behalf of our Brothers.

His reply, spoken to them all, was: "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's teaching and do what it bids."

And now, brothers, good-bye. Aim at perfection; take courage; agree together; live in peace. And then God, the source of all love and peace, will be with you.

My Brothers, should one of you be led astray from the Truth, and some one bring him back again,

the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters--with all purity.

For any one who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

Jesus loved Martha and her sister, and Lazarus.

Suppose some Brother or Sister should be in want of clothes and of daily bread,

If your Brother does wrong, go to him and convince him of his fault when you and he are alone. If he listens to you, you have won your Brother.

If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your Brother's feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin a man for whom Christ died!

Do not disparage one another, Brothers. He who disparages his Brother, or passes judgment on his Brother, disparages the Law and passes judgment on the Law. But, if you pass judgment on the Law, you are not obeying it, but judging it.

I, however, say to you that any one who cherishes anger against his brother shall be liable to answer for it to the Court; and whoever pours contempt upon his brother shall be liable to answer for it to the High Council, while whoever calls down curses upon him shall be liable to answer for it in the fiery Pit.

"I tell you," he answered, "that there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, on account of the Kingdom of God,

While he was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers were standing outside, asking to speak to him.

"Who is my mother? and who are my brothers?"

Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put to death;

while he who hates his Brother is in the Darkness, and is living in the Darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the Darkness prevents his seeing.

I beg you, then, Brothers, by Jesus Christ, our Lord, and by the love inspired by the Spirit, to join me in earnest prayer to God on my behalf.

Yet do not think of him as an enemy, but caution him as you would a Brother.

Who will not receive a hundred times as much, even now in the present--houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land--though not without persecutions, and, in the age that is coming, Immortal Life.

Every one who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or land, on account of my Name, will receive many times as much, and will 'gain Immortal Life.'

He who says that he is in the Light, and yet hates his Brother, is in the Darkness even now.

Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.

No longer as a slave, but as something better--a dearly loved Brother, especially dear to me, and how much more so to you, not only as your fellow man, but as your fellow Christian!

Show honour to every one, Love the Brotherhood, 'revere God, honour the emperor.'

Every one who hates his Brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has Immortal Life within him.

Be on your guard! If your brother does wrong, reprove him; but if he repents, forgive him.