1 Thessalonians 4:9
New International Version
Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.

New Living Translation
But we don’t need to write to you about the importance of loving each other, for God himself has taught you to love one another.

English Standard Version
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,

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

Berean Literal Bible
Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for me to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God in order to love one another.

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

New King James Version
But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

New American Standard Bible
Now as to the love of the brothers and sisters, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

NASB 1995
Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

NASB 1977
Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

Legacy Standard Bible
Now concerning love of the brothers, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

Amplified Bible
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].

Christian Standard Bible
About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

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;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But you do not need to have written to you concerning love of the brethren, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

Contemporary English Version
We don't have to write you about the need to love each other. God has taught you to do this,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another.

English Revised 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;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You don't need anyone to write to you about the way Christians should love each other. God has taught you to love each other.

Good News Translation
There is no need to write you about love for each other. You yourselves have been taught by God how you should love one another.

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.

Literal Standard Version
And concerning the brotherly love, you have no need of [my] writing to you, for you yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

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

New American Bible
On the subject of mutual charity you have no need for anyone to write you, 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 Revised Standard Version
Now concerning love of the brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anyone write to you, for you yourselves have been 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,

Webster's Bible Translation
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;

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,

Young's 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,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Living to Please God
8Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit. 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. 10And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more…

Cross References
Jeremiah 31:33
"But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Jeremiah 31:34
No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more."

John 6:45
It is written in the Prophets: 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me--

John 13:34
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

Romans 12:10
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

2 Corinthians 9:1
Now about the service to the saints, there is no need for me to write to you.

Philippians 3:15
All of us who are mature should embrace this point of view. And if you think differently about some issue, God will reveal this to you as well.


Treasury of Scripture

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

touching.

Leviticus 19:8
Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Psalm 133:1
A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

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…

ye need.

1 Thessalonians 5:1
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

Jeremiah 31:34
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Hebrews 8:10,11
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: …

for ye.

Isaiah 51:13
And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

Matthew 22:39
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

John 6:44,45
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day…

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1 Thessalonians 4
1. He exhorts them to go forward in all manner of godliness;
6. to live holily and justly;
9. to love one another;
11. and quietly to follow their own business;
13. and last of all, to sorrow moderately for the dead.
17. followed by a brief description of the resurrection, and second coming of Christ to judgment.














(9) But . . .--This forms the second subject of instruction, following naturally on the first. "We are very glad to hear of so strong a Christian feeling of brotherhood among you, and think it almost unnecessary to say anything more to you about it; still your charity is hardly catholic enough, nor have you exercised it with sufficient sobriety and thrift."

Brotherly love.--Not love of men at large, but of Christians in particular: in fact, pretty nearly what we call "Church feeling." It is the natural affection of those who feel that they are children of the same Father and the same mother (Galatians 4:26), members of the same "household of faith" (Galatians 6:10). In itself, it is not the most exalted of graces, being to some extent the outcome of community of interests; therefore St. Peter exhorts his readers to make it a means of obtaining the higher grace of charity (1Peter 1:22; 2Peter 1:7). St. Paul in this place does mean the sentiment rather than the practice, but has specially in view the exercise of liberality towards fellow-Christians. The feeling of community can only be known by acts that prove it.

Ye need not.--A sweet rhetorical figure, by which men are encouraged to the performance of a duty in which they are not perfect, by the praising of their imperfect attempts: a specimen of that "courtesy" which is a part of "brotherly love." (See 1Peter 3:8.) "I" should be we, or any. . . .

Verse 9. - The apostle now proceeds to a new exhortation. But as touching brotherly love. Brotherly love is the love of Christians to Christians, that special affection which believers bear to each other; a virtue which was carried to such perfection in the primitive Church as to call forth the admiration of their heathen adversaries. This virtue is often inculcated in Scripture (Hebrews 13:1; 1 John 3:14), and is distinguished from love in general (2 Peter 1:7). Ye need not that I write unto you; a delicate and gentle reproof. For ye yourselves are taught of God. We are not here to think of the new commandment of brotherly love given by the Savior, nor on the Divine compassion exciting us to love; but "taught of God" by the influences of the Spirit on their hearts and consciences to love one another.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Now
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

about
Περὶ (Peri)
Preposition
Strong's 4012: From the base of peran; properly, through, i.e. Around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time.

brotherly love,
φιλαδελφίας (philadelphias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 5360: Brotherly love, love of Christian brethren. From philadelphos; fraternal affection.

you do
ἔχετε (echete)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

not
οὐ (ou)
Adverb
Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

need [anyone]
χρείαν (chreian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 5532: From the base of chraomai or chre; employment, i.e. An affair; also occasion, demand, requirement or destitution.

to write
γράφειν (graphein)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 1125: A primary verb; to 'grave', especially to write; figuratively, to describe.

to you,
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

because
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

you
ὑμεῖς (hymeis)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

yourselves
αὐτοὶ (autoi)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

have been
ἐστε (este)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

taught by God
θεοδίδακτοί (theodidaktoi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2312: Taught by God, divinely instructed. From theos and didasko; divinely instructed.

to love
ἀγαπᾶν (agapan)
Verb - Present Infinitive Active
Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love.

one another.
ἀλλήλους (allēlous)
Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 240: One another, each other. Genitive plural from allos reduplicated; one another.


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