Bible Verses about โtaking care of siblingsโ
The Bible contains 31 verses about taking care of siblings across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBut if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.โ
โTrain up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.โ
โ"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.โ
โA new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.โ
โBut whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?โ
โAs each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.โ
โShe rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.โ
โBy this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."โ
โIf 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?โ
โFinally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,โ
โAnd above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.โ
โBear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.โ
โMy little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.โ
โA friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.โ
โRuth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;โ
โThey sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.โ
โAll who believed were together, and had all things in common.โ
โThis commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.โ
โwhere you die, will I die, and there will I be buried. Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."โ
โBut if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.โ
โSee how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!โ
โBe hospitable to one another without grumbling.โ
โBy this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.โ
โBut you, brothers, don't be weary in doing well.โ
โFor whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."โ
โYahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel, your brother?" He said, "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?"โ
โHe stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!โ
โBut he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?"โ
โThen he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.โ
โTherefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!"โ
โDon't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.โ
