1 Thessalonians 4:9
And concerning the brotherly love, you have no need of [my] writing to you, for you yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
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8He, therefore, who is despising, does not despise man, but God, who also gave His Holy Spirit to us.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:8and he who is eating it bears his iniquity, for he has defiled the holy thing of YHWH, and that person has been cut off from his people.
Isaiah 51:13And you forget YHWH your Maker, || Who is stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, || And you continually fear all the day, || Because of the fury of the oppressor, || As he has prepared to destroy. And where [is] the fury of the oppressor?
Matthew 22:39and the second [is] like to it: You will love your neighbor as yourself;
John 13:34A new command I give to you, that you love one another; according as I loved you, that you also love one another;
John 15:12This is My command, that you love one another, according as I loved you;
Romans 12:10in the love of brothers, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honor going before one 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 →