Bible Verses about “brotherly love”
The Bible contains 16 verses about brotherly love across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”
“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”
“¶ Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.”
“‹A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.›”
“‹Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.›”
“[Be] kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;”
“‹By this shall all› [men] ‹know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.›”
“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”
“¶ Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:”
“My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”
“¶ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.”
“And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.”
“¶ Let brotherly love continue.”
“¶ But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.”