1 Thessalonians 4:9

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1 Thessalonians 4:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

8 Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.

9 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.

10 And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more

11 and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.

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John 13:34

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

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By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

John 15:12

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

John 15:13

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:14

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

John 15:15

No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you.

John 15:16

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

John 15:17

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Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

Ephesians 5:1

Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,

Ephesians 5:2

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Hebrews 13:1

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Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.

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and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

1 John 2:10

Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.

1 John 3:11

This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

1 John 3:15

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.

1 John 3:16

By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

1 John 3:17

If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

1 John 3:18

Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

1 John 3:19

And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence:

1 John 3:23

And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:8

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:9

This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

1 John 4:10

And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 John 4:11

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

1 John 4:13

By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

1 John 4:14

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

1 John 4:15

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

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And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

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Now about the times and seasons, brothers, we do not need to write to you.

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For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds and inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

Hebrews 8:11

No longer will each one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.

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1 John 2:21

I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

1 John 2:22

Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son.

1 John 2:23

Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

1 John 2:24

As for you, let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If it does, you will also remain in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 2:25

And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

1 John 2:26

I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

1 John 2:27

And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.

Isaiah 51:13

But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

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And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

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“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

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But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.

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“This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their hearts and inscribe them on their minds.”

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