1st Thessalonians Chapter 4 verse 9 Holy Bible
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;
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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;
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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.
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But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
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But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
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And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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. . . .
