It’s Martin Luther King Day, and it almost slipped past me…

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good words, and believers should be leading the way.

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1.5 – 8, ESV, emphasis mine)

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. (Romans 12.10, ESV)

Let brotherly love continue. (Hebrews 13.1, ESV)

And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. (Revelation 5.9, ESV)

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands… (Revelation 7.9, ESV)