14 Bible Verses About Loving the Brethren
14 Bible verses about Loving the Brethren to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
If someone says, “I love God,” but hates a brother or sister, that person is a liar. For anyone who does not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, is not able to love God, whom they have not seen. And this is the command we have received from him: the one who loves God is to love a brother or sister as well.
I am giving you a new commandment: love one another. In the same way that I have loved you, you too must love one another. If you have love for one another, everyone will know by this that you are my disciples.”
This is how we have come to know what love is: he laid down his life for us. And we in turn owe it to our brothers and sisters to lay down our lives for them.
Now that you have made yourselves pure by obeying the truth, so that you have a genuine love for your brothers and sisters, keep loving one another from the heart with all your strength.
Love one another warmly, as brothers and sisters in one family; take the lead in honoring one another.
We know that we have moved out of death into life, because we love our brothers and sisters. Whoever does not love remains in death.
Dear friends, let us keep loving one another, for love has its source in God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows him. The one who does not love has never known God, for God is love.
Dear friends, since this is how God loved us, we too should love one another.
Let your love for one another as brothers and sisters remain.
Dear children, let us love not by what we say or with our tongues, but by what we do and in truth.
I am giving you a new commandment: love one another. In the same way that I have loved you, you too must love one another.
About love for one another as brothers and sisters, you do not need us to write to you, because God himself has taught you to love each other.
You were called to be free, brothers and sisters. Only do not let your freedom become an opening for the flesh. Instead, through love, be slaves to one another.
This is what God commands: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and that we love one another, following the command he gave us.