1 Thessalonians 4:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

1 Thessalonians 4:9 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 3:11
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Romans 12:10
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
1 John 3:23
And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. …
1 John 4:21
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Topics

Baptism Benevolence Brotherly Kindness Charitableness Charity Comforter Commandments Consolation

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-12)

In these words the apostle mentions the great duties, I. Of brotherly love. This he exhorts them to increase in yet more and more. The exhortation is introduced, not with a compliment, but with a commendation, because they were remarkable in the exercise of it, which made it less needful that he should write to them about it, 1 Thess. 4:9. Thus by his good opinion of them he insinuated himself int…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. brotherly love, &c.--referring here to acts of brotherly kindness in relieving distressed brethren. Some oldest manuscripts support English Version reading, “YE have”; others, and those the weightiest, read, “WE have.” We need not write, as ye yourselves are taught, and that by God: namely, in the heart by the Holy Spirit (Joh 6:45; He 8:11; 1Jo 2:20, 27). to love--Greek, “with a view to,” or “…