1 Thessalonians 4:9
But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:8But he who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of LORD, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Isaiah 51:13and have forgotten LORD thy maker, who stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth, and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? And where is the fury
Matthew 22:39And the second is like it, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.
John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, that ye should love each other, just as I loved you, so that ye also should love each other.
John 15:12This is my commandment, that ye love each other, just as I have loved you.
Romans 12:10with brotherly love toward each other, affectionate, leading each other in recognition,
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 4:2-9
Exhortations to Holiness; Caution against Impurity. ( a. d. 51.) 1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. 2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 5 Not in the lust… Read the whole commentary →