1 Thessalonians 4:9

Paul says they hardly need instruction on brotherly love, since God himself teaches them to love. The Spirit inclines believers' hearts to love one another.

Cross-references · 26

• 1 Jn 3:11For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;
• Rom 12:10In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;
• 1 Jn 3:23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
• John 13:34–35A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
• Heb 13:1Let brotherly love continue.
• 1 Jn 4:21This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
• 1 Th 5:1But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
• Acts 4:32The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
• 1 Pet 4:8And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
• Eph 5:1–2Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
• John 14:26But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.
• John 15:12–17“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
• Heb 10:16“This is the covenant that I will make with them: ‘After those days,’ says the Lord, ‘I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;’” then he says,
• 1 Jn 2:20–27You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
• 2 Pet 1:7and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
• 1 Jn 2:10He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
• Lev 19:8but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.
• 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
• Heb 8:10–11“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
• Ps 133:1A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
• Jer 31:34and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they shall all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.”
• John 6:44–45No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day.
• 1 Jn 3:14–19We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
• Isa 51:13Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?
• 1 Jn 4:7–16Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
• Matt 22:39A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

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