30 Bible Verses About Brothers

“Then the Lord said to Cain, ‘Where is your brother Abel?’ ‘I don’t know,’ he replied. ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’”

“So Abram said to Lot, ‘Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herders and mine, for we are close relatives.’”

“You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.”

“Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses and he said, ‘What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you.’”

“Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt.”

“At that time I said to you, ‘You are too heavy a burden for me to carry alone.’”

“The man who is the most tender and delicate among you will have harshness toward his brother and the wife he embraces and toward the rest of his children who remain.”

“The Israelites were satisfied and praised God and spoke no more of making war against them to destroy the land where the Reubenites and Gadites lived.”

“But today you have revolted against my father’s family. You have murdered his seventy sons on a single stone and have made Abimelek, the son of his female servant, king over the citizens of Shechem because he is your brother.”

“‘Why should he be put to death? What has he done?’ Jonathan asked his father.”

“I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women.”

“You are my relatives, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to bring back the king?’”

“he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead. (They had stolen their bodies from the public square at Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.)”

“Abishai, the brother of Joab, son of Zeruiah, was chief of the Three. He raised his spear against three hundred men, whom he killed, and so he became as famous as the Three.”

“‘What towns are these you have given me, my brother?’ he asked. And he called them the Land of Kabul, a name they have to this day.”

“Yet the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me from my whole family to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah as leader, and from the tribe of Judah he chose my family, and from my father’s sons he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.”

“I and my brothers and my men are also lending the people money and grain. But let us stop charging interest!”

“But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow”

“For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, ‘Peace be within you.’”

“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”

“Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:”

“Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: ‘Your own people who hate you, and exclude you because of my name, have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy!’ Yet they will be put to shame.”

“Your relatives, members of your own family— even they have betrayed you; they have raised a loud cry against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.”

“‘Son of man, your people are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the Lord.’”

“Before that time there were no wages for people or hire for animals. No one could go about their business safely because of their enemies, since I had turned everyone against their neighbor.”

“As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen.”

“These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John;”

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

“Because of this, the rumor spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, ‘If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?’”

“They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.”