Hating your Brother
10 passages
- Leviticus 19:17
You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.
Read it in context - 1 John 2:9
If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.
Read it in context - Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
Read it in context - 1 Timothy 5:8
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Read it in context - Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
Read it in context - 1 John 2:11
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Read it in context - Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Read it in context - Romans 12:19
Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”
Read it in context - Genesis 4:9
And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
Read it in context - Hebrews 13:1
Continue in brotherly love.
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