Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters.
Parallel translations
- WEB Let brotherly love continue.
- KJV Let brotherly love continue.
- BSB Continue in brotherly love.
- NKJV Let brotherly love continue.
- NASB Let love of the brothers and sisters continue.
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Quick answer
Let brotherly love continue. The mutual love among believers is to remain constant and ongoing.
Overview
Turning to practical exhortations, the author urges that the affection believers have for one another as a spiritual family persist and not grow cold. "Brotherly love" is the love proper to those who are children of God together. Such enduring love is the natural fruit of the gospel and a mark of those united to Christ (John 13:34–35).
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- 1 Jn 4:20If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
- 1 Pet 3:8Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,
- 1 Pet 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
- 2 Pet 1:7and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
- 1 Pet 2:17Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
- 2 Jn 1:5–6Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
- Rom 12:9–10Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
- Heb 10:24Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,
- 1 Jn 2:9–10He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
- 2 Th 1:3We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
- Heb 6:10–11For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
- Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
- 1 Pet 4:8And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
- 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.
- 1 Jn 3:10–18In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.
- 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.
- Phil 2:1–3If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
- Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
- 1 Th 4:9–10But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
- Rev 2:4But I have this against you, that you left your first love.
- John 15:17“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
- Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
- 1 Jn 4:7–11Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
- 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.
- Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- Acts 2:44–46All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
- Acts 2:1Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
- Eph 4:3being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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