BROTHER

Passages on this topic · 60

• Genesis 9:5

  I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

• Genesis 14:16

  He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.

• Genesis 29:12

  Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

• Genesis 37:21

  Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”

• Genesis 37:22

  Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him” — that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.

• Genesis 43:30

  Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.

• Genesis 43:31

  He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.”

• Genesis 43:32

  They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don’t eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

• Genesis 43:33

  They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.

• Genesis 43:34

  He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

• Genesis 45:1

  Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.

• Genesis 45:2

  He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

• Genesis 45:3

  Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence.

• Genesis 45:4

  Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. “He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

• Genesis 45:5

  Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

• Genesis 50:19

  Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God?

• Genesis 50:20

  As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is today, to save many people alive.

• Genesis 50:21

  Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

• Genesis 50:22

  Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

• Genesis 50:23

  Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

• Genesis 50:24

  Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

• Genesis 50:25

  Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

• Leviticus 19:17

  “‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

• Deuteronomy 22:1

  You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.

• Deuteronomy 22:2

  If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.

• Deuteronomy 22:3

  So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost, and you have found. You may not hide yourself.

• Deuteronomy 22:4

  You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.

• Deuteronomy 23:7

  You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

• Deuteronomy 25:5

  If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

• Deuteronomy 25:6

  It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 25:7

  If the man doesn’t want to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”

• Deuteronomy 25:8

  Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her”;

• Deuteronomy 25:9

  then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”

• Deuteronomy 25:10

  His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his shoe removed.”

• Judges 21:6

  The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.

• 2 Samuel 1:26

  I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

• 1 Kings 13:30

  He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”

• 1 Kings 20:33

  Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, “Your brother Ben Hadad.” Then he said, “Go, bring him.” Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

• Nehemiah 5:7

  Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

• Proverbs 8:1

  Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?

• Proverbs 17:17

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

• Proverbs 18:24

  A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

• Proverbs 27:10

  Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

• Jeremiah 34:9

  that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.

• Obadiah 1:10

  For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

• Matthew 12:50

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

• Matthew 18:35

  So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

• Matthew 22:24

  saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’

• Matthew 25:40

  “The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

• Mark 12:19

  “Teacher, Moses wrote to us, ‘If a man’s brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’

• Luke 20:28

  They asked him, “Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man’s brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.

• Acts 9:17

  Ananias departed, and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me, that you may receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

• Acts 21:20

  They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

• Romans 16:23

  Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

• 1 Corinthians 7:12

  But to the rest I — not the Lord — say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

• 2 Corinthians 2:13

  I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

• Hebrews 2:11

  For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

• Hebrews 2:12

  saying, “I will declare your name to my brothers. Among of the congregation I will sing your praise.”

• 1 Peter 1:22

  Seeing 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:

• 1 John 3:15

  Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.