Parallel Verses
Moffatt New Testament
You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another,
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
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.
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.
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
Topics
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Philadelphia
References
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 hence, he who disregards this, disregards not man but the God who gave you his holy Spirit. 9 You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another, 10 as indeed is your practice towards all the brothers throughout all Macedonia. We beseech you, brothers, to excel in this more and more;
Names
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 5:1
As regards the course and periods of time, brothers, you have no need of being written to.
Romans 12:10
Put affection into your love for the brotherhood; be forward to honour one another;
1 John 3:11
For this is the message you have learned from the very beginning, that we are to love one another:
1 John 3:23
Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do;
Hebrews 13:1
Let your brotherly love continue.
Matthew 22:39
There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself.
John 6:44-45
No one is able to come to me unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me (and I will raise him up on the last day).
John 13:34-35
I give you a new command, to love one another ??as I have loved you, you are to love one another.
John 14:26
but the Helper, the holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and recall to you everything I have said.
John 15:12-17
This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you.
Acts 4:32
[Relocated to before vs 34] Now there was but one heart and soul among the multitude of the believers; not one of them considered anything his personal property, they shared all they had with one another.
Ephesians 5:1-2
Copy God, then, as his beloved children,
Hebrews 8:10-11
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel when that day comes, saith the Lord; I will set my laws within their mind, inscribing them upon their hearts; I will be a God to them, and they shall be a People to me;
Hebrews 10:16
This is the covenant I will make with them when that day comes, saith the Lord, I will set my laws upon their hearts, inscribing them upon their minds, he adds,
1 Peter 3:8
Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility,
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, be keen to love one another, for love hides a host of sins.
2 Peter 1:7
piety with brotherliness, brotherliness with Christian love.
1 John 2:10
He who loves his brother remains in the light ??and in the light there is no pitfall;
1 John 2:20-27
Now, you have been anointed by the holy One, and you all possess knowledge.
1 John 3:14-19
We know we have crossed from death to life, because we love the brotherhood; he who has no love [for his brother] remains in death.
1 John 4:7-16
Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;
1 John 4:21-1
And we get this command from him, that he who loves God is to love his brother as well.