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Green's Literal Translation

Hebrews 13:1

Let brotherly love continue.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Fellowship;   Fraternity;   Love;   Thompson Chain Reference - Brethren;   Brotherly Love;   Duty;   Love;   Love-Hatred;   Social Duties;   The Topic Concordance - Burden;   Love;   Strangers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Conduct, Christian;   Love to Man;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hospitality;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Beneficence;   Discontent;   Hospitality;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Brotherly Love;   Hebrews;   Hospitality;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Brotherly Love;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brotherhood (2);   Brotherly Love;   Family;   Fellowship (2);   Hebrews Epistle to the;   Perseverance;   Priest;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Brotherly Kindness;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for March 12;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Let brotherly love continue.
King James Version (1611)
Let brotherly loue continue.
King James Version
Let brotherly love continue.
English Standard Version
Let brotherly love continue.
New American Standard Bible
Let love of the brothers and sisters continue.
New Century Version
Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let love of the brethren continue.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let love of the brothers continue.
Berean Standard Bible
Continue in brotherly love.
Contemporary English Version
Keep being concerned about each other as the Lord's followers should.
Complete Jewish Bible
Let brotherly friendship continue;
Darby Translation
Let brotherly love abide.
Easy-to-Read Version
Continue loving each other as brothers and sisters in Christ.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let brotherly loue continue.
George Lamsa Translation
LET brotherly love continue in you.
Good News Translation
Keep on loving one another as Christians.
Lexham English Bible
Brotherly love must continue.
Amplified Bible
Let love of your fellow believers continue.
American Standard Version
Let love of the brethren continue.
Bible in Basic English
Go on loving your brothers in the faith.
Hebrew Names Version
Let brotherly love continue.
International Standard Version
Let brotherly love continue.Romans 12:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:9; 1 Peter 1:22; 2:17; 3:8; 4:8; 2 Peter 1:7; 1 John 3:11;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Let the love of the brethren continue in you;
Murdock Translation
Let love for the brethren dwell among you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let brotherly loue continue.
English Revised Version
Let love of the brethren continue.
World English Bible
Let brotherly love continue.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Let brotherly love continue.
Weymouth's New Testament
Let brotherly love always continue.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The charite of britherhod dwelle in you, and nyle ye foryete hospitalite;
Update Bible Version
Let love of the brothers continue.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let brotherly love continue.
New English Translation
Brotherly love must continue.
New King James Version
Let brotherly love continue.
New Living Translation
Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters.
New Life Bible
Keep on loving each other as Christian brothers.
New Revised Standard
Let mutual love continue.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let brotherly love continue.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you.
Revised Standard Version
Let brotherly love continue.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Let brotherly love continue.
Young's Literal Translation
Let brotherly love remain;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let brotherly loue cotynue.
Mace New Testament (1729)
Let brotherly love still reign.
THE MESSAGE
Stay on good terms with each other, held together by love. Be ready with a meal or a bed when it's needed. Why, some have extended hospitality to angels without ever knowing it! Regard prisoners as if you were in prison with them. Look on victims of abuse as if what happened to them had happened to you. Honor marriage, and guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband. God draws a firm line against casual and illicit sex.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Keep on loving others as if they were your own brother or sister.

Contextual Overview

1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not forget hospitality, for by this some unknowingly took in angels as guests. 3 Be mindful of the prisoners, as having been bound with them ; of those ill-treated, as also being in the body yourselves. 4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but God will judge fornicators and adulterers. 5 Set your way of life without money-loving, being satisfied with present things; for He has said, "Not at all will I leave you, not at all will I forsake you," never! Deut. 31:6 6 So that we may boldly say, "The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid. What shall man do to me?" LXX-Psa. 117:6; MT-Psa. 118:6 7 Remember your leaders who spoke the Word of God to you, considering the issue of their conduct, imitate their faith: 8 Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever. 9 Do not be carried away by various and strange doctrine; for it is good that the heart be confirmed by grace, not by food, in which those walking in them were not profited. 10 We have an altar of which those serving the tabernacle have no authority to eat.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hebrews 6:10, Hebrews 6:11, Hebrews 10:24, John 13:34, John 13:35, John 15:17, Acts 2:1, Acts 2:44-46, Acts 4:32, Romans 12:9, Romans 12:10, Galatians 5:6, Galatians 5:13, Galatians 5:22, Ephesians 4:3, Ephesians 5:2, Philippians 2:1-3, 1 Thessalonians 4:9, 1 Thessalonians 4:10, 2 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 2:17, 1 Peter 3:8, 1 Peter 4:8, 2 Peter 1:7, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:10, 1 John 3:10-18, 1 John 3:23, 1 John 4:7-11, 1 John 4:20, 1 John 4:21, 1 John 5:1, 2 John 1:5, 2 John 1:6, Revelation 2:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:8 - brethren Genesis 43:29 - God Genesis 49:1 - Gather 1 Samuel 30:21 - came near 2 Chronicles 11:4 - against 2 Chronicles 28:11 - deliver Job 1:4 - sent and called Psalms 133:1 - how good Matthew 25:35 - I was a Acts 6:1 - there Acts 21:17 - the brethren Hebrews 13:16 - to do Hebrews 13:22 - suffer James 1:16 - my 1 John 3:14 - because

Cross-References

Genesis 13:9
Is not all the land before you? Please separate from me. If you go to the left, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.
Genesis 20:1
And Abraham pulled up stakes from there to the land of the Negeb, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.
Genesis 21:33
And he planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of Jehovah the everlasting God.
Joshua 10:40
And Joshua struck all the land: the heights and the Negeb, and the Lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings; he did not leave a survivor, but he destroyed all that breathed, as Jehovah the God of Israel had commanded.
Joshua 18:5
And they shall divide it into seven parts. Judah shall stay within their border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay within their border on the north.
1 Samuel 27:10
And Achish said, Did you not make raids today? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and to the south of the Kenites.
2 Samuel 24:7
And they came into the fortress of Tyre, and all the cities of the Hivite, and of the Canaanite. And they went out to the south of Judah, to Beer-sheba.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let brotherly love continue. The Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions add, "in you"; or among you, as a church and society of Christians; for this is not to be understood of love to all mankind, or to those of the same nation, or who are in a strict natural relation brethren, though they are all in a sense brethren, and to be loved; but of love to those who are in the same spiritual relation to God, as their Father, to Christ, as the firstborn among many brethren; and are in the same church state, at least partakers of the same grace: and which love ought to be universal, and reach to all the saints, and be fervent and unfeigned, and as Christ hath loved us; and when it is genuine, it is active and laborious; and shows itself in praying with and for one another; in bearing one another's burdens; in forbearing and forgiving one another; in admonishing one another in love; in building up each other in the most holy faith; and in stirring up one another to the several duties of religion: and without this excellent and useful grace, a profession of religion is in vain; this is an evidence of regeneration; it is the bond of perfectness, and what renders the saints' communion delightful and edifying: many are the arguments moving to the exercise of it; as the love of God, and Christ; the new commandment of Christ; the relation saints stand in to one another; the comfort and joy of Gospel ministers, and our own peace and edification: and this should continue; for the love of God and Christ continues; the relation between the saints continues; and without this, churches cannot continue long: the apostle means, not the grace itself, the internal principle, for that, where it once is, always continues, and can never be lost; but the exercise and increase of it, an abounding in it yet more and more. One of the Jewish prayers is to this purpose q;

"he that dwells in this house, let him plant among you

אחוה ואהבה, "brotherhood and love", (or brotherly love,) peace and friendship.''

q T. Hieros. Beracot, fol. 3. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let brotherly love continue - Implying that it now existed among them. The apostle had no occasion to reprove them for the want of it, as he had in regard to some to whom he wrote, but he aims merely to impress on them the importance of this virtue, and to caution them against the danger of allowing it ever to be interrupted; see the notes on John 13:34.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XIII.

Exhortations to hospitality to Strangers, 1, 2.

Kindness to those in bonds, 3.

Concerning marriage, 4.

Against covetousness, 5, 6.

How they should imitate their teachers, 7, 8.

To avoid strange doctrines, 9.

Of the Jewish sin-offerings, 10, 11.

Jesus suffered without the gate, and we should openly confess

him and bear his reproach, 12, 13.

Here we have no permanent residence; and while we live should

devote ourselves to God, and live to do good, 14-16.

We should obey them that have the rule over us, 17.

The apostle exhorts them to pray for him, that he might be

restored to them the sooner, 18, 19.

Commends them to God in a very solemn prayer, 20, 21.

Entreats them to bear the word of exhortation, mentions Timothy,

and concludes with the apostolical benediction, 22-25.

NOTES ON CHAP. XIII.

Verse Hebrews 13:1. Let brotherly love continue. — Be all of one heart and one soul. Feel for, comfort, and support each other; and remember that he who professes to love God should love his brother also. They had this brotherly love among them; they should take care to retain it. As God is remarkable for his φιλανθρωπια, philanthropy, or love to man, so should they be for φιλαδελφια, or love to each other. See the note on "Titus 3:4".


 
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