30 Bible Verses about Siblings

But he said to the man who told him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?"

Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

He answered, "My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God's message and obey it!"

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first of them married and died, and as he had no children, he left his wife to his brother;

And his mother and his brothers came. And they stood outside the house and sent word in to him to come outside to them.

"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

And he said to them, "I tell you, there is no one who has given up home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the Kingdom of God

And anyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or land for my sake will receive many times as much, and share eternal life.

While he was still speaking, his mother and his brothers came up and stood outside the crowd, wanting to speak to him.

For even his brothers did not believe in him.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother!"

You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and kinsmen and friends and they will put some of you to death,

This is the command that we get from him, that whoever loves God must love his brother also.

One brother will give up another to death, and a father his child, and children will turn against their parents, and have them put to death.

for I have five brothers; let him warn them so that they will not also come to this place of torture.'

Is he not the carpenter, Mary's son, and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And do not his sisters live here among us?"

So his brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, to let your disciples also see the things you are doing.

His relatives heard of it and came over to stop him, for they said that he was out of his mind.

Now brothers, goodbye! Be what you ought to be, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace, and God the source of love and peace will be with you.

Do not talk against one another, brothers. Whoever talks against a brother or condemns his brother talks against the Law, and condemns the Law. But if you condemn the Law you are not an observer of the Law but its judge.

If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

and a man's enemies will be in his own household.

Therefore, brothers, make all the greater efforts to make God's call and choice of you certain. For if you have these qualities, you will never stumble,

We know what love means from the fact that he laid down his life for us; so we also ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

Someone in the crowd said to him, "Master, tell my brother to give me my share of our inheritance."

My brothers, if any one of you is led astray from the truth, and someone brings him back,

Then Peter came to him and said, "Master, how many times am I to forgive my brother when he wrongs me? Seven times over?"

We must not be like Cain who was a child of the evil one, and butchered his brother. And why did he butcher him? Because his own actions were wicked and his brother's upright.

Now there were seven brothers. And the eldest married a wife and died childless.

But Martha was worried with all she had to do for them, and she came up and said, "Master, does it make no difference to you that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me."