⁸ Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.

⁶ But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

⁷ Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

²⁶ "The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, 'Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?'

¹ > See how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to live together in unity!

²² Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

¹⁷ Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

⁸ Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

⁸ And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

⁷ and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

⁹ He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

¹⁰ He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

¹¹ But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

¹⁵ Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.

¹⁶ By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

¹⁷ But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

¹⁸ My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

¹⁹ And by this we know that we are of the truth, and persuade our hearts before him,

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

²⁰ If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

²¹ This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

¹⁸ Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

¹ Let brotherly love continue.

²⁴ So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, "See that you don't quarrel on the way."

¹³ He went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"

¹ A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.

¹⁸ A wrathful man stirs up contention, But one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

³ It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every fool will be quarreling.

⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called children of God.

¹⁰ In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

² with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

³ being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

⁹ But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

¹⁴ Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

²⁷ Now this is the history of the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran became the father of Lot.

²⁸ Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

²⁹ Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Iscah.

³⁰ Sarai was barren. She had no child.

³¹ Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran, and lived there.