'Brethren' in the Bible

But I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in prayers for me to God;

Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brethren with them.

But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them.

Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be not among you divisions; but that ye be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same opinion.

For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of the house of Chloe, that there are strifes among you.

For consider your calling, brethren, that there are not many wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many high-born.

And I, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony of God.

And I, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.

Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the lesson of not letting your thoughts go above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for such a one against another.

I speak to you to put you to shame. Thus there is not a wise person among you, not even one, who shall be able to decide between his brethren!

But ye do wrong, and defraud, and this your brethren.

Let each, wherein he is called, brethren, therein abide with God.

But this I say, brethren, the time is straitened. For the rest, that they who have wives, be as not having any:

Now, thus sinning against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

have we not a right to take round a sister as wife, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

So that, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait for one another.

But concerning spiritual manifestations, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant.

And now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophecy, or in teaching?

Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men.

What is it then, brethren? whenever ye come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to edification.

So that, brethren, desire to prophesy, and do not forbid the speaking with tongues.

But I make known to you, brethren, the glad tidings which I announced to you, which also ye received, in which also ye stand,

Then he appeared to above five hundred brethren at once, of whom the most remain until now, but some also have fallen asleep.

But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom, nor does corruption inherit incorruptibility.

So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

Let not therefore any one despise him; but set him forward in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brethren.

Now concerning the brother Apollos, I begged him much that he would go to you with the brethren; but it was not at all his will to go now; but he will come when he shall have good opportunity.

But I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the saints for service,)

All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.

For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, as to our tribulation which happened to us in Asia, that we were excessively pressed beyond our power, so as to despair even of living.

But we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God bestowed in the assemblies of Macedonia;

Whether as regards Titus, he is my companion and fellow-labourer in your behalf; or our brethren, they are deputed messengers of assemblies, Christ's glory.

For I know your readiness, which I boast of as respects you to Macedonians, that Achaia is prepared since a year ago, and the zeal reported of you has stimulated the mass of the brethren.

But I have sent the brethren, in order that our boasting about you may not be made void in this respect, in order that, as I have said, ye may be prepared;

I thought it necessary therefore to beg the brethren that they would come to you, and complete beforehand your fore-announced blessing, that this may be ready thus as blessing, and not as got out of you.

And being present with you and lacking, I did not lazily burden any one, (for the brethren who came from Macedonia supplied what I lacked,) and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself.

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the nations, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren;

For the rest, brethren, rejoice; be perfected; be encouraged; be of one mind; be at peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia.

But I let you know, brethren, as to the glad tidings which were announced by me, that they are not according to man.

and it was on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

Brethren, (I speak according to man,) even man's confirmed covenant no one sets aside, or adds other dispositions to.

Be as I am, for I also am as ye, brethren, I beseech you: ye have not at all wronged me.

But ye, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.

So then, brethren, we are not maid servant's children, but children of the free woman.

But I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away.

For ye have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Brethren, if even a man be taken in some fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself lest thou also be tempted.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren. Amen.

For the rest, brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the might of his strength.

Peace to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

But I would have you know, brethren, that the circumstances in which I am have turned out rather to the furtherance of the glad tidings,

and that the most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord through my bonds, dare more abundantly to speak the word of God fearlessly.

For the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord: to write the same things to you, to me is not irksome, and for you safe.

Brethren, I do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,

Be imitators all together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;

So that, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, thus stand fast in the Lord, beloved.

For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are noble, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are amiable, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if any praise, think on these things.

Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me salute you.

to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ which are in Colosse. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.

Salute the brethren in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the assembly which is in his house.

knowing, brethren beloved by God, your election.

For ye know yourselves, brethren, our entering in which we had to you, that it has not been in vain;

For ye remember, brethren, our labour and toil: working night and day, not to be chargeable to any one of you, we have preached to you the glad tidings of God.

For ye, brethren, have become imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered the same things of your own countrymen as also they of the Jews,

But we, brethren, having been bereaved of you and separated for a little moment in person, not in heart, have used more abundant diligence to see your face with much desire;

for this reason we have been comforted in you, brethren, in all our distress and tribulation, through your faith,

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that ye should be written to,

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief:

But we beg you, brethren, to know those who labour among you, and take the lead among you in the Lord, and admonish you,

But we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, be patient towards all.

Brethren, pray for us.

Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.

I adjure you by the Lord that the letter be read to all the holy brethren.

We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another abounds;

Now we beg you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him,

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the instructions which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also with you;

Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

But ye, brethren, do not faint in well-doing.

Laying these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which thou hast fully followed up.

Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brethren,

And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren; but let them the rather serve them with subjection, because they are faithful and beloved, who profit by the good and ready service rendered. These things teach and exhort.

Use diligence to come before winter. Eubulus salutes thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and the brethren all.

For both he that sanctifies and those sanctified are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

saying, I will declare thy name to my brethren; in the midst of the assembly will I sing thy praises.

Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like to his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people;

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,

See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God.

And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:

Having therefore, brethren, boldness for entering into the holy of holies by the blood of Jesus,

But I beseech you, brethren, bear the word of exhortation, for it is but in few words that I have written to you.

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations,

Do not err, my beloved brethren.

So that, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;