brothers
What does the Bible say about brothers? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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17Whoever is a friend loves at all times. And a brother is proved by distress.
1A Canticle in steps: of David. Behold, how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to dwell in unity.
15Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding within him.
20If anyone says that he loves God, but hates his brother, then he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he does see, in what way can he love God, whom he does not see?
1May fraternal charity remain in you.
24A man amiable to society shall be more friendly than a brother.
15But if your brother has sinned against you, go and correct him, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you will have regained your brother. 16But if he will not listen you, invite with you one or two more, so that every word may stand by the mouth of two or three witnesses. 17And if he will not listen to them, tell the Church. But if he will not listen to the Church, let him be to you like the pagan and the tax collector. 18Amen I say to you, whatever you will have bound on earth, shall be bound also in heaven, and whatever you will have released on earth, shall be released also in heaven. 19Again I say to you, that if two of those among you have agreed on earth, about anything whatsoever that they have requested, it shall be done for them by my Father, who is in heaven. 20For wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I, in their midst.”
22So chastise your souls with the obedience of charity, in fraternal love, and love one another from a simple heart, attentively.
11For he who sanctifies, and those who are sanctified, are all from One. For this reason, he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying:
35So, too, shall my heavenly Father do to you, if each one of you will not forgive his brother from your hearts.”
8But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.
50For anyone who does the will of my Father, who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
26I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan: exceedingly stately, and worthy to be loved above the love of women. As a mother loves her only son, so also did I love you.