Quotes About Brotherhood

A song of ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!

A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son and share his inheritance as one of the brothers.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Whoever is slothful in his work is brother to him who destroys.

An offended brother is harder to win than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.

O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my motherís breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

A man will seize his brother within his fatherís house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”

By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.

“So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

Each one helps the other and says to his brother, “Be strong!”

“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

This is what each man is to say to his friend and to his brother: ëWhat has the LORD answered?í or ëWhat has the LORD spoken?í

Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.

And I will summon a sword against Gog on all My mountains, declares the Lord GOD, and every manís sword will be against his brother.

In the womb he grasped his brotherís heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Tyre, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they delivered up a whole congregation of exiles to Edom and broke a covenant of brotherhood.

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Edom, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he pursued his brother with the sword and stifled all compassion; his anger raged continually, and his fury flamed incessantly.

Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

But you should not gloat in that day, your brotherís day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.