Bible Verses About Brotherly Love
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for brotherly love, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,336 votes, led by Romans 12:10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Brotherly Love
Romans 12:10218 votes
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
1 John 4:20176 votes
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
Hebrews 13:1150 votes
Let brotherly love continue.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8129 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
John 13:34113 votes
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 15:13108 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
1 Peter 3:8101 votes
Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
1 John 4:782 votes
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 3:1881 votes
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
John 13:34-3572 votes
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 13:3572 votes
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
1 Corinthians 12:2664 votes
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
1 Thessalonians 4:959 votes
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
1 Corinthians 16:1457 votes
Let all your things be done with charity.
1 Corinthians 13:1-1352 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Colossians 3:1448 votes
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
1 John 3:1443 votes
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
1 John 3:1643 votes
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Proverbs 17:1741 votes
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
1 Peter 2:1741 votes
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
1 John 4:1241 votes
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 3:1140 votes
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
1 John 3:139 votes
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
John 3:1638 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 Peter 1:2237 votes
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
What does the Bible say about brotherly love?
Readers most often cite Romans 12:10 on the subject of brotherly love. Across 3,336 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 John 4:20, Hebrews 13:1, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.