Reference: Brotherly Love
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Philadelphia is not' brother-like love,' but 'brother-love,' the love one has for brothers or sisters, scil, 'love of the brethren,'
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You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy. But I tell you, Love your enemies, and pray for those that persecute you; read more. that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and rains on the just and unjust. For if you love those that love you, what reward have you? Do not the publicans the same? And if you salute your brothers only, what do you do more than [others]? Do not the gentiles also do the same? Be therefore perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Pray, therefore, thus; Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name;
and stretching out his hand to his disciples, he said, Behold my mother, and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.
But do not you be called Rabbi; For one is your teacher, and you are all brothers. And call no man your father on the earth, for one is your heavenly Father.
Then Jesus said to them, Fear not; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they shall see me.
I give you a new commandment to love another, as I have loved you that you also should love one another. By this shall all know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No man has greater love than this, that one should give his life for his friends.
Jesus said to her, Do not touch me; for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.
Men and brothers, children of the race of Abraham, and you that fear God, the word of this salvation is sent to you.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are sons of God. For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father. read more. The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God. And if children, [we are] also heirs, heirs indeed of God and co-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him.
For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers;
be kindly disposed one to another with brotherly love, in honor prefer one another,
rejoice in the hope, be patient in affliction, be persevering in prayer, contribute to the necessity of saints, practise hospitality.
if possible, as much as may be in your power, live peaceably with all men, not vindicating yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Judgment is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. read more. If therefore your enemy is hungry, give him food; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for doing this you shall heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Owe no man any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fully performed the law. For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not desire inordinately, and if there is any other commandment, it is summarily comprehended in this word; You shall love your neighbor as yourself. read more. Love does no evil to a neighbor; love therefore is the sum of the law.
But now I am going to Jerusalem to serve the saints.
For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body being many are one body, so also is Christ; for we have all been baptized with one Spirit in one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and have all been made to drink one Spirit. read more. For the body also is not one member but many. If the foot says, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? and if the ear says, Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body was an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole was a hearing, where would be the smelling? But now God has placed the members each one of them in the body, as he pleased. But if all were one member, where would be the body? But now there are many members, but one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you, or again, the head to the feet, I have no need of you; but much more those members of the body which seem to be weak are necessary, and those which we esteem to be less honorable members of the body, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our uncomely members have more abundant comeliness, for our comely ones have no need. But God has commingled the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which was lacking, that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; and if one member is glorified, all the members rejoice with it. And you are a body of Christ, and members in particular.
And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, also an heir of God.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love.
For you are called to liberty, brothers, only make not your liberty an occasion for the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fully contained in one precept; you shall love your neighbor as yourself. read more. But if you bite and devour one another, see that you be not consumed one by another.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
As we have opportunity, therefore, let us do good to all, but especially to the members of the family of the faith.
As we have opportunity, therefore, let us do good to all, but especially to the members of the family of the faith.
Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the family of God,
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice.
and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor.
and in addition to all these [put on] love, which is the bond of perfection.
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should write to you; for you are taught by God to love one another;
For God is not unjust, to forget your work, and the love which you showed for his name, having served the saints and [still] serving them.
Let brotherly love continue.
Let brotherly love continue. Forget not hospitality; for by this some without knowing it have entertained angels.
And forget not beneficence and liberality; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Having purified your souls by obeying the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another fervently, from the heart,
Having purified your souls by obeying the truth to unfeigned brotherly love, love one another fervently, from the heart,
Honor all men, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
Finally, be all of one mind, sympathising, loving as brothers, compassionate, humble,
whom resist, firm in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished by your brothers in the world.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues in us and his love is perfected in us. read more. By this we know that we continue in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, the Saviour of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God continues in him and he in God. And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him. By this is love perfected with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, that as he is we also are in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has pain; and he that is afraid is not made perfect in love. We love, because he first loved us. If any one says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And we have this commandment from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
saying, What you see write in a book, and send to the seven churches, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamus and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.