Brother
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Brother’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.
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Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.
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You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
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Judges 21:6 OT
The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, “There is one tribe cut off from Israel today.
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Nehemiah 5:7 OT
Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.
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that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.
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Obadiah 1:1 OT
The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.
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Genesis 9:5 OT
I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
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So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”
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1 John 3:15 NT
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
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I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
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He laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”
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Now the men observed diligently, and hurried to take this phrase; and they said, “Your brother Ben Hadad.” Then he said, “Go, bring him.” Then Ben Hadad came out to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
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A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
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A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
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Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.
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Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.
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Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, “Let’s not take his life.”
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Reuben said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
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Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there. He washed his face, and came out. He controlled himself, and said, “Serve the meal.” They served him by…
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Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. He wept aloud. The Egyptians…
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Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today. Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you…
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For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”
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“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’