Powerful Bible Verses about Dying for Your Brother

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us, and we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up…

If someone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.

And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.

And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

And the King will answer and say to them, Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.

Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;

If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?

Then He said to them all, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

Let brotherly love continue.

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

Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another.

Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

With all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous.

And He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

A brother is a friend given by nature.

There are things worse than death and, when you find out what they are, you’ll wish you had died.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.