Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Now you do not need anyone to write to you about brotherly love, since you have been taught by God to love each other.
New American Standard Bible
Now as to 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.
Holman Bible
About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God
A Conservative Version
But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.
American Standard Version
But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
Amplified
Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write you, for you have been [personally] taught by God to love one another [that is, to have an unselfish concern for others and to do things for their benefit].
An Understandable Version
Now you people do not need anyone to write to you about loving [your] brothers, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
Anderson New Testament
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;
Bible in Basic English
But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;
Common New Testament
Now concerning love of the brethren you have no need to have any one write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;
Daniel Mace New Testament
As to brotherly love, I have no occasion to write about it, God himself having instructed you to love one another.
Darby Translation
Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Godbey New Testament
But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another with divine love;
Goodspeed New Testament
You do not need to have anyone write to you about brotherly love, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another,
John Wesley New Testament
Touching brotherly love, we need not write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Julia Smith Translation
And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
King James 2000
But concerning brotherly love you need not that I write unto you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But concerning brotherly love, I do not have need to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
Modern King James verseion
But regarding brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But as touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you. For ye are taught of God to love one another.
Moffatt New Testament
You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another,
Montgomery New Testament
It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
NET Bible
Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
New Heart English Bible
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
Noyes New Testament
But concerning brotherly love there is no need of writing to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
Sawyer New Testament
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should write to you; for you are taught by God to love one another;
The Emphasized Bible
But, concerning brotherly love - no need, have ye, that we be writing unto you; for, ye yourselves, are, God-taught, to the loving of one another; -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Now concerning brotherly love, I have no need to write unto you: for ye yourselves are divinely taught to love one another.
Twentieth Century New Testament
As to love for the Brethren there is no need to write to you; for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another;
Webster
But concerning brotherly love ye need not that I write to you: for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
Weymouth New Testament
But on the subject of love for the brotherhood it is unnecessary for me to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;
Williams New Testament
Now as to brotherly love, you have no need of anyone's writing you, for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another,
World English Bible
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
Worrell New Testament
But concerning brotherly love, ye have no need that one write to you; for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another;
Worsley New Testament
But as to brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Youngs Literal Translation
And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of my writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
Themes
Brotherly love » General references to
Character » Of saints » Loving
Instruction » Of children encouraged » Love's great lesson
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 4:9
Prayers for 1 Thessalonians 4:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Affirmation Of Continuing Love
8 Therefore, whoever rejects this instruction is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit. 9 Now you do not need anyone to write to you about brotherly love, since you have been taught by God to love each other. 10 In fact, you are showing love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia, but we urge you, brothers, to keep on doing this even more.
Names
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 5:1
Now you do not need to have anything written to you about times and dates, brothers,
Romans 12:10
Be devoted to each other with mutual affection. Excel at showing respect for each other.
1 John 3:11
This is the message that you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
1 John 3:23
And this is his commandment: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus the Messiah, and to love one another as he commanded us.
Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love continue.
Leviticus 19:8
Anyone who eats it will bear the punishment of his sin, since he will have defiled himself regarding the LORD's holy things. That person is to be eliminated from contact with his people."
Psalm 133:1
Look how good and how pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!
Isaiah 51:13
As a result, you have forgotten the LORD who made you, who stretched out the heavens and laid the earth's foundations, and you live in constant fear every day because of the oppressor's fury, since he's ready to destroy. Now where is the oppressor's fury?
Jeremiah 31:34
No longer will a person teach his neighbor or his relative: "Know the LORD.' Instead, they'll all know me, from the least to the greatest of them," declares the LORD. "Indeed, I'll forgive their iniquity, and I'll remember their sin no more."
Matthew 22:39
The second is exactly like it: "You must love your neighbor as yourself.'
John 6:44-45
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him to life on the last day.
John 13:34-35
I'm giving you a new commandment"to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
John 14:26
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and remind you of everything that I have told you.
John 15:12-17
"This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.
Acts 4:32
Now all the believers were one in heart and soul, and nobody called any of his possessions his own. Instead, they shared everything they owned.
Ephesians 5:1-2
So be imitators of God, as his dear children.
Hebrews 8:10-11
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Hebrews 10:16
"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts and will write them on their minds,
1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you must live in harmony, be sympathetic, love as brothers, and be compassionate and humble.
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, continue to love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.
2 Peter 1:7
your godliness with brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness with love.
1 John 2:10
The person who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no reason for him to stumble.
1 John 2:20-27
You have an anointing from the Holy One and know all things.
1 John 3:14-19
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love one another. The person who does not love remains spiritually dead.
1 John 4:7-16
Dear friends, let us continuously love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born from God and knows God.
1 John 4:21-1
And this is the commandment that we have from him: the person who loves God must also love his brother.