The Bible holds brothers responsible for one another, starting with the first man who denied it. Asked where his brother was, Cain answered, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” (Genesis 4:9), and the rest of Scripture answers the question through its law, its stories of brothers who fell out and made peace, and its teaching on the church. In the New Testament letters, “brothers” usually means fellow believers, men and women alike. The ESV notes at such verses that the Greek…
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