Bible Verses about “brothers”
The Bible contains 19 verses about brothers across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”
“"If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.”
“But if he doesn't listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.”
“If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.”
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them."”
“If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?”
“"The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'”
“A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.”
“A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”
“Again, assuredly I tell you, that if two of you will agree on earth concerning anything that they will ask, it will be done for them by my Father who is in heaven.”
“Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.”
“See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!”
“Let brotherly love continue.”
“Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.”
“So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don't each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds."”
“For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."”
“Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:”
“I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.”
“For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,”