30 Bible Verses about Siblings

But He answered the man who told Him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?"

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

Then He answered them, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and practice it."

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died without children, and left his widow to his brother.

Then His mother and His brothers came. They were standing outside and sent word to call Him.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

So He said to them, "I solemnly say to you, there is no one who has given up home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the kingdom of God,

And everyone who has given up home or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms, for my sake, will receive many times as much, and in addition will be in possession of eternal life.

While He was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and His brothers had taken their stand outside, trying hard to get to speak to Him.

For even His brothers did not believe in Him.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my mother and sister and brother."

Yes, you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends, and they will put some of you to death,

This is the command that we get from Him, that whoever loves God loves his brother too.

One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents, and will have them put to death.

(for I have five brothers) to warn them, that they too may not come to this place of torture.'

Is He not the carpenter, Mary's son, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And do not His sisters live here among us?" And so they found a cause for stumbling over him.

So His brothers said to Him, "You must leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the works that you are doing;

His kinsmen heard of it and came over to get hold of Him, for they kept saying, "He has gone crazy."

Finally, brothers, goodbye! Practice the perfecting of your characters, keep listening to my appeals, continue thinking in harmony and living in peace, and the loving, peace-giving God will be with you.

Stop talking against one another, brothers. Whoever is in the habit of talking against a brother or of criticizing his brother is criticizing and condemning the law. But if you are in the habit of criticizing the law, you are not a practicer but a critic of the law.

If anyone says, "I love God," and yet habitually hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

and a man's enemies will be members of his own family.

Therefore, brothers, be all the more in earnest to make certain to yourselves God's call and choice of you. For if you cultivate these qualities, you will never slip,

We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

Just then a man in the crowd said to Him, "Tell my brother to share with me our inheritance."

My brothers, if any one of you has wandered away from the truth, and someone brings him back,

Then Peter came up to Him and asked, "Lord, how many times may my brother wrong me and I have to forgive him? As many as seven?"

We must not be like Cain who belonged to the evil one and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.

Now there were seven brothers. And the first brother married a wife and died childless.

But Martha was getting worried about having to wait on them so much, so she came up suddenly and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the housework alone? Then tell her to take hold and help me."