30 Bible Verses about Siblings

"Who is my mother?" He said to the man; "and who are my brothers?"

"Here are my mother and my brothers. For wherever there is one who has been obedient to God, there is my brother--my sister--and my mother."

"My mother and my brothers," He replied, "are these who hear God's Message and obey it."

Now we had among us seven brothers. The eldest of them married, but died childless, leaving his wife to his brother.

By this time His mother and His brothers arrive, and standing outside they send a message to Him to call Him.

"If any one is coming to me who does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

"I solemnly tell you," replied Jesus, "that there is no one who has left house or wife, or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of God's Kingdom,

And whoever has forsaken houses, or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children or lands, for my sake, shall receive many times as much and shall have as his inheritance the Life of the Ages.

While He was still addressing the people His mother and His brothers were standing on the edge of the crowd desiring to speak to Him.

For even His brothers were not believers in Him.

To obey my Father who is in Heaven--that is to be my brother and my sister and my mother."

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives, friends; and some of you they will put to death.

And the command which we have from Him is that he who loves God must love his brother man also.

Brother will betray brother to death, and father, child; and children will rise against their own parents and will put them to death.

For I have five brothers. Let him earnestly warn them, lest they also come to this place of torment.'

Is not this the carpenter, Mary's son, the brother of James and Joses, Jude and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?" So they turned angrily away.

So His brothers said to Him, "Leave these parts and go into Judaea, that not only we but your disciples also may witness the miracles which you perform.

Hearing of this, His relatives came to seize Him by force, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

Finally, brethren, be joyful, secure perfection of character, take courage, be of one mind, live in peace. And then God who gives love and peace will be with you.

Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. The man who speaks evil of a brother-man or judges his brother-man speaks evil of the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it.

If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

and a man's own family will be his foes.

For this reason, brethren, be all the more in earnest to make sure that God has called you and chosen you; for it is certain that so long as you practise these things, you will never stumble.

We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.

Just then a man in the crowd appealed to Him. "Rabbi," he said, "tell my brother to give me a share of the inheritance."

My brethren, if one of you strays from the truth and some one brings him back,

At this point Peter came to Him with the question, "Master, how often shall my brother act wrongly towards me and I forgive him? seven times?"

We are not to resemble Cain, who was a child of the Evil one and killed his own brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's actions righteous.

Now there were seven brothers. The first of them took a wife and died childless.

Martha meanwhile was busy and distracted in waiting at table, and she came and said, "Master, do you not care that my sister is leaving me to do all the waiting? Tell her to assist me."