Brother

28 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

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A Fraternal Epithet, Especially Among Christians – Instituted by Christ

Matthew 12:50 For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 25:40 And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’
Hebrews 2:11–12 For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. …

Deuteronomy 25:5–10 When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her. …
Matthew 22:24 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
Mark 12:19 “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.
Luke 20:28 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.

Genesis 43:30–34 Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep. …
Genesis 45:1–5 Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Send everyone away from me!” So none of them were with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers. …
Genesis 50:19–25 But Joseph replied, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God? …

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 come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
Song of Solomon 8:1 O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

Genesis 37:21–22 When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said. …

2 Samuel 1:26 I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.
1 Kings 13:30 Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they lamented over him, “Oh, my brother!”
1 Kings 20:33 Now the men were looking for a sign of hope, and they quickly grasped at this word and replied, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.” “Go and get him!” said the king. Then Ben-hadad came out, and Ahab had him come up into his chariot.

Deuteronomy 23:7 Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
Judges 21:6 And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
Nehemiah 5:7 and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them

Genesis 14:16 He retrieved all the goods, as well as his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the rest of the people.
Genesis 29:12 He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.

Jeremiah 34:9 that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
Obadiah 10 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

Genesis 9:5 And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
Matthew 18:35 That is how My heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart.”
1 John 3:15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.

Proverbs 27:10 Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.