7 Bible Verses about Brotherly Kindness
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But concerning brotherly love you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Be tender loving one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loves is born of God, and knows God. He that loves not knows not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.read more.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him. In this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear has to do with punishment. He that fears is not made perfect in love. We love him, because he first loved us. If a man 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 this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God love his brother also.
Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law. For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
A new commandment I give unto you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
And for this reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge self control; and to self control patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love.
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Brotherly kindness » Encouraged
Be tender loving one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishes, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
And be you kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » David
And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
She opens her mouth with wisdom; and on her tongue is the law of kindness.
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » Joseph
Now therefore fear not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » moses
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » The philippian jailer
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, immediately.
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » The good samaritan
And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » The barbarians
And the native people showed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » Boaz
And let fall also some of the handfuls on purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.