1 Thessalonians 4:9

But with respect to brotherly love, you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

In Context

8Therefore, he that despises, despises not man, but God, who has given us his Holy Spirit.

10and indeed you do this to all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that you abound in love more and more,

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Cross References

Matthew 22:39And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

John 15:12This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you.

Romans 12:10in love to the brotherhood, be kindly affectionate one to another; in showing honor, be examples one to another;

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 →

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