What Does the Bible Say About Brothers And Sisters In Christ?

Matthew 12:48-50 ESV / 209 helpful votes

But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

1 John 4:20 ESV / 93 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Romans 12:5 ESV / 85 helpful votes

So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

1 Corinthians 5:11 ESV / 62 helpful votes

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

2 John 1:10-11 ESV / 58 helpful votes

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

1 John 4:12 ESV / 41 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 37 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Matthew 12:50 ESV / 27 helpful votes

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Romans 12:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Mark 12:31 ESV / 26 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

1 John 4:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 21 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 17:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Hebrews 13:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Let brotherly love continue.

Philippians 1:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

Psalm 90:15 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil.

1 John 3:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death.

John 20:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

1 Corinthians 6:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

Acts 2:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

1 Corinthians 14:34-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

27 Bible Verses about Brothers And Sisters In Christ