1 Thessalonians 4:9

WEB

⁹But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

KJV

⁹But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

BSB

⁹Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

FBV

⁹We certainly don't need to write and tell you to love fellow-believers, because God teaches you to love one another—

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Extra References

1 John 3:11

¹¹For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another—

Romans 12:10

¹⁰In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another,

1 John 3:23

²³This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

³⁴A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another. ³⁵By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Hebrews 13:1

¹Let brotherly love continue.

1 John 4:21-1

1 Thessalonians 5:1

¹But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

1 Peter 4:8

⁸And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Acts 4:32

³²The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

John 15:12-17

¹²“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you. ¹³Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. ¹⁴You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. ¹⁵No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. ¹⁶You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

¹⁷“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.