The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah. Shelomith was their sister.

You have followed the ways of your sister, so I will place her cup of judgment in your hand.

Now I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets in your house.

When she lustfully exposed her nakedness, I was disgusted with her, just as I had been disgusted with her sister.

So now, bear your disgrace, because you have given your sisters reason to justify their behavior. Because the sins you have committed were more abominable than those of your sisters; they have become more righteous than you. So now, be ashamed and bear the disgrace of making your sisters appear righteous.

You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual intercourse with her.

Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers and sisters with them.

All the brothers and sisters send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

We know, brothers and sisters loved by God, that he has chosen you,

But you, brothers and sisters, do not grow weary in doing what is right.

Therefore do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.

Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully when they spoke because Shechem had violated their sister Dinah.

Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death.”

As she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said to her, “Come on! Get in bed with me, my sister!”

But Absalom said nothing to Amnon, either bad or good, yet Absalom hated Amnon because he had humiliated his sister Tamar.

The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham: the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.