1 Thessalonians 4:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.”
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“Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of <FI>my<Fi> writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Thessalonians 4:9 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 19:8Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.
- Psalms 133:1Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!
- Isaiah 51:13But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
- Jeremiah 31:34No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
- Matthew 22:39And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
- John 6:44“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 13:34A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
- John 14:26But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.
- John 15:12This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
- Acts 4:32The multitude of believers was one in heart and soul. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they owned.
- Romans 12:10Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
- Ephesians 5:1Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
- 1 Thessalonians 5:1Now about the times and seasons, brothers, we do not need to write to you.
- Hebrews 8:10For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
- Hebrews 10:16“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”
- Hebrews 13:1Continue in brotherly love.
- 1 Peter 3:8Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.
- 1 Peter 4:8Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
- 2 Peter 1:7and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.
- 1 John 2:10Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.
- 1 John 2:20You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
- 1 John 3:11This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
- 1 John 3:14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
- 1 John 3:23And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
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