Bible verses about "loving your brother and sister" | LEB

Proverbs 15:5

5 A fool will despise the instruction of his father, but he who guards reproof is prudent.

Matthew 5:23-24

23 Therefore if you present your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar and first go be reconciled to your brother, and then come and* present your gift.

Ephesians 4:32

32 Become* kind toward one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ has forgiven you.

1 John 4:21

21 And this is the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

1 John 3:16

16 We have come to know love by this: that he* laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.

Matthew 5:22

22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry at his brother will be subject to judgment, and whoever says to his brother, 'Stupid fool!'* will be subject to the council, and whoever says, 'Obstinate fool!'* will be subject to fiery hell.

1 John 3:16-24

16 We have come to know love by this: that he* laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers. 17 But whoever has the world's material possessions and observes his brother in need* and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God reside in him? 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. 19 By this* we know that we are of the truth and will convince our heart before him, 20 that* if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart and knows all things. 21 Dear friends, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God, 22 and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what is pleasing in his sight*. 23 And this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he commanded us*. 24 And the one who keeps his commandments resides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he resides in us: by the Spirit whom he has given to us.

1 John 4:19-5:4

19 We love, because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar, for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen is not able to love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this is the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

1 John 5:1-4

1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father* also loves the child fathered by him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, 4 because everyone who is fathered by God conquers the world.

1 John 4:20

20 If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar, for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen is not able to love God whom he has not seen.

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