9But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
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.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. …
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
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…
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