1 Thessalonians 4:9

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

But as touchynge brotherly love ye nede not that I wryte vnto you. For ye are taught of God to love on another.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Περὶ δὲ τῆς φιλαδελφίας οὐ χρείαν ἔχετε γράφειν ὑμῖν: αὐτοὶ γὰρ ὑμεῖς θεοδίδακτοί ἐστε εἰς τὸ ἀγαπᾶν ἀλλήλους.

Transliteration

Concerning but the philadelphias not chreian you echete to graphein to you: autoi for you theodidaktoi este into the to agapan allēlous.

Grammar Details

• *philadelphias*: genitive, feminine, singular - brotherly love
• *chreian*: accusative, feminine, singular - need/necessity
• *echete*: present, indicative, active, 2nd person, plural - you have
• *graphein*: present, infinitive, active - to write
• *autoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - yourselves (emphatic)
• *theodidaktoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - taught by God
• *este*: present, indicative, active, 2nd person, plural - you are
• *agapan*: present, infinitive, active - to love
• *allēlous*: accusative, masculine, plural - one another/each other

Word Meanings

• *philadelphias*: brotherly love/fraternal affection/love for fellow believers
• *chreian*: need/necessity/requirement
• *echete*: have/possess/hold
• *graphein*: write/compose/record
• *theodidaktoi*: taught by God/divinely instructed
• *agapan*: love/cherish/value

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 3:11 : 11 For this is the tydinges that ye hearde fro the begynninge that we shuld love one another:
• Rom 12:10 : 10 Be kynde one to another with brotherly love. In gevynge honoure goo one before another.
• 1 John 3:23 : 23 And this is his comaundemet that we beleve on ye name of his sonne Iesus Christ and love one another as he gave comaundemet.
• Heb 13:1 : 1 Let brotherly love continue.
• 1 Thess 5:1 : 1 Of the tymes and seasons brethren ye have no nede that I write vnto you:
• 1 John 2:10 : 10 He that loveth his brother abydeth in the light and ther is none occasion of evyll in him.
• John 13:34-35 : 34 A newe commaundment geve I vnto you that ye love to gedder as I have loved you that even so ye love one another. 35 By this shall all me knowe yt ye are my disciples yf ye shall have love one to another.
• 1 John 4:21-5:1 : 21 And this commaundemet have we of him: that he which loveth God shuld love his brother also. 1 Whosoever beleveh that Iesus is Christ is borne of god. And every one yt loveth him which begat loveth him also which was begotte of him.
• 1 John 3:14-19 : 14 We knowe that we are translated from deeth vnto lyfe be cause we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abydeth in deeth. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a man slear. And ye knowe that no man slear hath eternall lyfe abydinge in him. 16 Herby perceave we love: that he gave his lyfe for vs: and therfore ought we also to geve oure lyves for the brethre. 17 Whosoever hath this worldes good and seith his brother have neade: and shutteth vp his copassion from him: how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18 My babes let vs not love in worde nether in tonge: but with dede and in veritie: 19 for therby we knowe that we are of the veritie and can before him quiet oure hertes.
• John 14:26 : 26 But that coforter which is the holy gost (whom my father will sende in my name) he shall teache you all thinges and bringe all thinges to youre remembraunce whatsoever I have tolde you.
• John 15:12-17 : 12 This is my commaundement that ye love togedder as I have loved you. 13 Gretter love then this hath no man then that a man bestowe his lyfe for his frendes. 14 Ye are my fredes yf ye do whatsoever I commaunde you. 15 Hence forth call I you not servauntes: for the servaunt knoweth not what his Lorde doeth. But you have I called frendes: for all thinges that I have hearde of my father I have opened to you. 16 Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordeyned you that ye go and bringe forthe frute and that youre frute remayne that whatsoever ye shall axe of the father in my name he shulde geve it you. 17 This comaunde I you that ye love to gedder.
• Acts 4:32 : 32 And the multitude of them that beleved were of one hert and of one soule. Also none of them sayde that eny of the thinges which he possessed was his awne: but had all thinges commen.
• Eph 5:1-2 : 1 Be ye folowers of god as dere children 2 and walke in love even as Christ loved vs and gave him silfe for vs an offerynge and a sacrifyce of a swete saver to god.
• Lev 19:8 : 8 And he that eateth it shall bere his synne: because he hath defiled the halowed thinges of the Lorde, ad that soule shall perish from amonge his people.
• Matt 22:39 : 39 And ther is another lyke vnto this. Love thyne neghbour as thy selfe.
• John 6:44-45 : 44 No man can come to me except the father which hath sent me drawe him. And I will rayse him vp at the last daye. 45 It is written in the Prophetes yt they shall all be taught of God. Every man therfore that hath hearde and hath learned of the father commeth vnto me.
• 1 John 2:20-27 : 20 And ye have an oyntment of ye holy gost and ye knowe all thynges. 21 I wrote not vnto you as though ye knewe not the trueth: but as though ye knewe it and knowe also that no lye commeth of trueth. 22 Who is a lyar: but he that denyeth that Iesus is Christ? The same is the Antichrist that denyeth the father and the sonne. 23 Whosoever denyeth the sonne the same hath not the father. 24 Let therfore abyde in you that same which ye hearde from the begynnynge. Yf that which ye hearde from ye begynnynge shall remayne in you ye also shall continewe in the sonne and in the father 25 And this is the promes yt he hath promysed vs even eternall lyfe. 26 This have I writte vnto you concernynge the yt disceave you. 27 And ye anoyntynge which ye have receaved of him dwelleth in you. And ye nede not that eny man teache you: but as ye annoyntynge teaheth you all thynges and is true and is no lye: and as it taught you even so byde therin.
• Heb 8:10-11 : 10 For this is the testament that I will make with the housse of Israhell: After those dayes sayth the LORde: I will put my lawes in their myndes and in their hertes I will wryte the and I wilbe their God and they shalbe my people. 11 And they shall not teache every man his neghboure and every man his brother sayinge: knowe the LORde: For they shall knowe me from the lest to the moste of them:
• Heb 10:16 : 16 This is the testament that I will make vnto them after those dayes sayth the LORde. I will put my lawes in their hertes and in their mynde I will write them
• 1 Pet 3:8 : 8 In coclusion be ye all of one mynde one suffre with another love as brethren be petifull be courteous
• 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 But above all thinges have fervet love amoge you. For love covereth the multitude of synnes.
• 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 in godlynes brotherly kyndnes in brotherly kyndnes love.
• 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 Beloved let vs love one another: for love cometh of God. And every one that loveth is borne of God and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is love. 9 In this appered ye love of god to vs ward because that god sent his only begotten sonne into the worlde that we myght live thorow him. 10 Herin is love not that we loved god but that he loved vs and sent his sonne to make agrement for oure sinnes. 11 Beloved yf god so loved vs we ought also to love one another. 12 No man hath sene god at enytyme. Yf we love one another god dwelleth in vs and his love is parfect in vs. 13 Herby know we that we dwell in him and he in vs: because he hath geven vs of his sprete. 14 And we have sene and do testifie that the father sent the sonne which is the saveour of the worlde. 15 Whosoever confesseth that Iesus is the sonne of god in him dwelleth god and he in god. 16 And we have knowen and beleved the love that god hath to vs. God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in god and god in him.