1 Peter 3:8

All believers are to be united, sympathetic, loving, compassionate, and humble. Christian community is marked by harmony and tender-hearted love.

Cross-references · 29

• Rom 12:10In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;
• Eph 4:31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
• 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• Phil 4:8–9Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
• Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Eph 4:2with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;
• Zech 7:9“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.
• Col 3:12Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
• 1 Cor 12:26When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
• 1 Jn 3:18–19My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
• Matt 18:33Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’
• Rom 12:15–16Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
• 1 Cor 1:10Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
• Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
• 1 Jn 3:14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
• Acts 4:32The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
• 2 Pet 1:7and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• 1 Pet 2:17Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
• Ps 103:13Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.
• Jas 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Jas 5:11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
• Phil 3:16Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule. Let us be of the same mind.
• Rom 15:5Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,
• Prov 28:8He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
• Acts 27:3The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.
• Acts 2:1Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
• Acts 28:7Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.
• Luke 10:33But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

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