7 Bible Verses about Brotherly Kindness

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1 John 4:7-21

Beloved let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God for God is love. The love of God was made known through us. 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 (atonement) (sacrificial payment) for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time! If we love one another, God lives with us, and his love is perfected (accomplished) (matured) through us. We know that we live with him and he with us, because he has given us of his Spirit. We see and testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives with him, and he with God. We know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love! He who continues with love lives with God and God lives with him. This is love made perfect through us, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment. Just as he is, we are, amid (exposed to) this world. There is no fear in love. Perfect (mature) love throws out (expels) fear because fear involves restraint (punishment). He who fears is not made perfect (mature) (complete) through love. We love, because he first loved us. If a man says, I love God, yet he hates his brother, he is a liar! He who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. We have this commandment from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.

Romans 13:8-10

Owe no man any thing but to love one another. He that loves another has fulfilled (obeyed) the law. For the Law code says: You must not commit adultery, you must not murder, you must not steal, you must not bear false witness, and you must not covet. If there is any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying; namely, you must love your neighbor as yourself. Love works no ill to his neighbor. Therefore love is the law's fulfillment.

2 Peter 1:5-7

Yes, for this very reason you do your part with all diligence. Supply virtue to your faith. Add knowledge to your virtue. Include self-control with your knowledge. Supply patience to your self-control. Your patience should be helped by godliness. Add brotherly kindness to your godliness. And to your brotherly kindness add love.

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Brotherly kindness » Encouraged

More verses: 1 Peter 1:5-6

Brotherly kindness » Examples of » David

2 Samuel 9:1

One day, David thought: I wonder if any of Saul's family is still alive. If they are I will be kind to them. This is because I made a promise to Jonathan.

Brotherly kindness » Examples of » Joseph

Genesis 50:21

You have nothing to fear. I will take care of you and your children. So he reassured them with kind words that touched their hearts.

Brotherly kindness » Examples of » moses

Exodus 2:17

Then the shepherds came and drove them away. Moses stood up and helped them water their flock.

Brotherly kindness » Examples of » The philippian jailer

Acts 16:33

That very hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds. Then he and all his family were baptized.

Brotherly kindness » Examples of » The good samaritan

Luke 10:34

He went to him and bandaged his wounds pouring oil and wine on them. He set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn to take care of him.

Brotherly kindness » Examples of » The barbarians

Brotherly kindness » Examples of » Boaz

Ruth 2:16

Pull some heads of grain out of what has been corded up and drop them for her to take. Say no sharp word to her.

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