7 Bible Verses about Brotherly Kindness
Most Relevant Verses
As to brotherly love, I have no occasion to write about it, God himself having instructed you to love one another.
in brotherly kindness be passionately affected to one another; in honour prefer one another:
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God. he that has not social affection, does not know God; for God is love. by this was the love of God displayed towards us, in that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we might live thro' him.read more.
and what heightens his love, was this, that it was not we who first loved God, but it was he that first loved us, and sent his son to expiate our sins. beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another. no man hath ever seen God. if we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and our love for him is then sincere. Hereby we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his spirit. and we have seen, and do testify, that the father hath sent the son to be the saviour of the world. whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. and we have known, and are convinced that God hath loved us. God is love; and he that cultivates social affection, dwelleth in God, and God in him. the divine love to us will be in the highest degree, if our condition in this world be the same as was that of Christ Jesus; so that we may appear with confidence in the day of judgment. Fear is a stranger to love; for perfect loves excludes all fear: since pain is the object of fear, he that is affected with fear, cannot be sincere in his love. let us love him; since he first loved us. if a man says he loves God, and yet hates his brother, he is a lyar: for he that does not love his brother, who is before his eyes, how can he love God who is invisible? besides, 'tis a commandment we have receiv'd from him, that he who would love God, must love his brother also.
Owe no man any thing, but mutual love: for he that loves others hath fulfilled the law. for this, "thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet;" and whatever social precept there be, it is reduced to this single head, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self." the benevolent never does wrong to his neighbour: therefore benevolence is the fulfilling of the law.
a new commandment I give unto you, "that ye love one another; that you would have the same love for one another as I have had for you."
Do you on your part employ all your care in adding to your faith, fortitude: to fortitude, knowledge: to knowledge, temperance: to temperance, patience: to patience, piety: to piety, fraternal affection: and to fraternal affection, universal benevolence.
Bible Theasaurus
From Thematic Bible
Brotherly kindness » Encouraged
in brotherly kindness be passionately affected to one another; in honour prefer one another:
that your faith being put to a more advantageous proof, than that of gold, which loses by the essay, may redound to your praise and highest honour at the appearance of Jesus Christ:
be you therefore adorn'd with a compassionate temper, with benevolence, humility, meekness, patience as becometh saints and chosen favourites of God:
Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently,
be mutually kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » David
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » Joseph
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » moses
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » The philippian jailer
at the same time of night he washed their stripes, and immediately he was baptized, he, and all that belong'd to him.
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » The good samaritan
went up to him, dress'd his wounds by applying oil and wine, then set him upon his own mule, and brought him to an inn, where he took care of him.
Brotherly kindness » Examples of » The barbarians
where the inhabitants, as much barbarians, as they were, receiv'd us with great humanity. they kindled a fire, and secur'd us from the falling rains, as well as the cold: