The Distinctive Traits of True Godliness (6): Brotherly Love

Love for the brethren is a great mark of godliness. Our Lord said that His disciples would be known in the world by the love which they had for one another. "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another" (John 13:35). There are few exhortations that appear more often in the Scriptures than the command to love our brethren. Paul says in Colossians, "And above all these things put on charity which is the bond of perfectness" (Colossians 3:14). Peter exhorts,...