24 Bible Verses about sisterhood
Most Relevant Verses
Please tell them that you are my sister so that things will go well for me for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you.”
Show respect for all people [treat them honorably], love the brotherhood [of believers], fear God, honor the king.
to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters, in all purity [being careful to maintain appropriate relationships].
Besides, she actually is my [half] sister; she is the daughter of my father [Terah], but not of my mother; and she became my wife.
Be devoted to one another with [authentic] brotherly affection [as members of one family], give preference to one another in honor;
For you, my brothers, were called to freedom; only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the sinful nature (worldliness, selfishness), but through love serve and seek the best for one another.
The Lord gives the command [to take Canaan];
The women who proclaim the good news are a great host (army);
so that they may encourage the young women to tenderly love their husbands and their children,
Finally, believers, rejoice! Be made complete [be what you should be], be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace [enjoy the spiritual well-being experienced by believers who walk closely with God]; and the God of love and peace [the source of lovingkindness] will be with you.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
I can do all things [which He has called me to do] through Him who strengthens and empowers me [to fulfill His purpose—I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency; I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses me with inner strength and confident peace.]
Both Jesus who sanctifies and those who are sanctified [that is, spiritually transformed, made holy, and set apart for God’s purpose] are all from one Father; for this reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,
Now I have applied these things [that is, the analogies about factions] to myself and Apollos for your benefit, believers, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written [in Scripture], so that none of you will become arrogant and boast in favor of one [minister or teacher] against the other.
All these with one mind and one purpose were continually devoting themselves to prayer, [waiting together] along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers.
So he settled there for a year and six months, teaching them the word of God [concerning eternal salvation through faith in Christ].
So Peter got up [at once] and went with them. When he arrived, they brought him into the upstairs room; and all the widows stood beside him, weeping and showing [him] all the tunics and robes that Dorcas used to make while she was with them.
I press on toward the goal to win the [heavenly] prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead. But when I examined him carefully in the morning, behold, it was not my son, the one whom I had borne.”
and to [your wife] Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier [in ministry], and to the church that meets in your house:
Blessed are those who observe justice [by honoring God’s precepts],
Who practice righteousness at all times.
then I will give you rain in its season, and the land will yield her produce and the trees of the field bear their fruit.
Now a man of the house of Levi [the priestly tribe] went and took as his wife a daughter of Levi.
No soldier in active service gets entangled in the [ordinary business] affairs of civilian life; [he avoids them] so that he may please the one who enlisted him to serve.