Bible Verses About Fraternity: General references

`When there is with thee any needy one of one of thy brethren, in one of thy cities, in thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy brother;

for thou dost certainly open thy hand to him, and dost certainly lend him sufficient for his lack which he lacketh.

`Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart--worthless, saying, Near is the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin;

thou dost certainly give to him, and thy heart is not sad in thy giving to him, for because of this thing doth Jehovah thy God bless thee in all thy works, and in every putting forth of thy hand;

because the needy one doth not cease out of the land, therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Thou dost certainly open thy hand to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy one, in thy land.

`When thy brother is sold to thee, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he hath served thee six years--then in the seventh year thou dost send him away free from thee.

And when thou dost send him away free from thee, thou dost not send him away empty;

thou dost certainly encircle him out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out of thy wine-vat; of that which Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee thou dost give to him,

and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God doth ransom thee; therefore I am commanding thee this thing to-day.

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together!

As the good oil on the head, Coming down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, That cometh down on the skirt of his robes,

As dew of Hermon--That cometh down on hills of Zion, For there Jehovah commanded the blessing--Life unto the age!

but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.

`If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee,

leave there thy gift before the altar, and go--first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;

and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

`And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.

`Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.

Then Peter having come near to him, said, `Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him--till seven times?'

Jesus saith to him, `I do not say to thee till seven times, but till seventy times seven.

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?

have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

of the things of life, indeed, then, if ye may have judgment, those despised in the assembly--these cause ye to sit;