So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is<n id="1" /> my brother and sister and mother.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;If<n id="1" /> your brother<n id="2" /> sins,<n id="3" /> go and show him his fault<n id="4" /> when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have regained your brother.

<p class="bodytext">Then Peter came to him and said, &#8220;Lord, how many times must I forgive my brother<n id="1" /> who sins against me? As many as seven times?&#8221;

It was appropriate<n id="1" /> to celebrate and be glad, for your brother<n id="2" /> was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard what John said<n id="1" /> and followed Jesus.<n id="2" />

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil<n id="1" /> and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)<n id="2" />

For if your brother or sister<n id="1" /> is distressed because of what you eat,<n id="2" /> you are no longer walking in love.<n id="3" /> Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer and our brother Quartus greet you.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Tychicus, my<n id="1" /> dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make everything known to you, so that you too may know about my circumstances,<n id="2" /> how I am doing.

And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation,<n id="1" /> just as also our dear brother Paul<n id="2" /> wrote to you,<n id="3" /> according to the wisdom given to him,

&#8220;Teacher, Moses said, &#8216;<b><i>If a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and father childreni>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>for his brotheri>b>.&#8217;<n id="2" />

Isn&#8217;t this the carpenter, the son<n id="1" /> of Mary<n id="2" /> and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And aren&#8217;t his sisters here with us?&#8221; And so they took offense at him.

The slave replied,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Your brother has returned, and your father has killed the fattened calf<n id="2" /> because he got his son<n id="3" /> back safe and sound.&#8217;

<p class="bodytext">Now when Mary came to the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said to him, &#8220;Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.&#8221;

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian<n id="1" /> who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive,<n id="2" /> or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

<p class="bodytext">To the rest I say &#8211; I, not the Lord<n id="1" /> &#8211; if a brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is happy to live with him, he should not divorce her.

But if the unbeliever wants a divorce, let it take place. In these circumstances the brother or sister is not bound.<n id="1" /> God has called you in peace.

<t /><p class="bodytext">From Paul,<n id="1" /> an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth,<n id="2" /> with all the saints who are in all Achaia.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">I, John, your brother and the one who shares<n id="1" /> with you in the persecution, kingdom, and endurance that<n id="2" /> are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus.<n id="3" />