Love Of The Brethren
-tfJohn 13:34-35 "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you. . . ."
1st John 3:22-24 [Believing on the Lord is connected with loving one another and keeping his commandments.]
2nd John 5-6 [Same]
1st John 5:2-3 "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we . . . keep his commandments."
1st Peter 2:17 "Love the brotherhood."
3:8-9 ". . . love as brethren. . . ."
Hebrews 13:1 "Let brotherly love continue."
John 15:11-13, 17, (18) "These things I command you, that ye love one another."
(Psalm 109:2-5 "And they have rewarded me . . . hatred for my love.")
(Matthew 24:10-13 "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.")
1st Thessalonians 3:8-13 ". . . increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men. . . ."
Romans 12:9-10 "Let love be without dissimulation. . . . Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love. . . ."
1st Peter 1:22 ". . . unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. . . ."
Philippians 1:9-10 ". . . that your love may abound . . . that ye may be sincere. . . ."
1st John 3:10-18 ". . . we should love one another . . . in deed and in truth."
John 17:25-26 ". . . that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them. . . ."
Ephesians 4:2-3 "With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love. . . ."
5:1-2 "And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us. . . ."
Acts 20:35 ". . . ye ought to support the weak. . . ." (Does this mean people in a wheel chair?)
1st Peter 3:7 "the wife . . . the weaker vessel" (Yet even some of the men fall in this category!)
1st Thessalonians 5:14 ". . . comfort the feebleminded, support the weak. . . ." (Give me an example.)
Matthew 18:15 "Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother."
vs. 21-35 "So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses."
Galatians 5:13 ". . . use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another."
Galatians 6:1-10 "Bear ye one another's burdens. . . ."
Hebrews 10:24-25 ". . . provoke unto love and to good works . . . exhorting one another. . . ." (True, but there is balance.)
(A) Galatians 6:1 "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted." [What does that mean?]
James 5:20 "Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins." (Whose sins are being hidden?)
(B) 1st Peter 4:8 ". . . for charity shall cover the multitude of sins."
Romans 14:4 "Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand."
Philippians 2:1-3 "Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love. . . ."
Psalm 133:1 "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"
1st Thessalonians 4:9 ". . . for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another."
1st Corinthians 13:1-13 ". . . but the greatest of these is charity."
1st John 4:7-12 "Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. . . . and his love is perfected in us."
v. 16-21 ". . . he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"