Hebrews 13:1

Amplified Bible

Let love of your fellow believers continue.

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.

Literal Translation
Let brotherly love 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

¹Let love of your fellow believers continue.²Do not neglect to extend hospitality to strangers [especially among the family of believers—being friendly, cordial, and gracious, sharing the comforts of your home and doing your part generously], for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it. ³Remember those who are in prison, as if you were their fellow prisoner, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body [and subject to physical suffering]. ⁴Marriage is to be held in honor among all [that is, regarded as something of great value], and the marriage bed undefiled [by immorality or by any sexual sin]; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. ⁵Let your character [your moral essence, your inner nature] be free from the love of money [shun greed—be financially ethical], being content with what you have; for He has said, "I WILL NEVER [under any circumstances] DESERT YOU [nor give you up nor leave you without support, nor will I in any degree leave you helpless], NOR WILL I FORSAKE or LET YOU DOWN or RELAX MY HOLD ON YOU [assuredly not]!" ⁶So we take comfort and are encouraged and confidently say, "THE LORD IS MY HELPER [in time of need], I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?" ⁷Remember your leaders [for it was they] who brought you the word of God; and consider the result of their conduct [the outcome of their godly lives], and imitate their faith [their conviction that God exists and is the Creator and Ruler of all things, the Provider of eternal salvation through Christ, and imitate their reliance on God with absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness]. ⁸Jesus Christ is [eternally changeless, always] the same yesterday and today and forever. ⁹Do not be carried away by diverse and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established and strengthened by grace and not by foods [rules of diet and ritualistic meals], which bring no benefit or spiritual growth to those who observe them. ¹⁰We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle (sacred tent) have no right 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 the entire land before you? Please separate [yourself] from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or if you choose the right, then I will go to the left."

Genesis 20:1
Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the Negev (the South country), and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he lived temporarily in Gerar.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD [in prayer], the Eternal God.

Joshua 10:40
So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, the Negev (South country) and the lowland and the slopes [that descend to the Dead Sea] and all their kings. He left no survivor, but he utterly destroyed all who breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.

Joshua 18:5
"They shall divide it into seven parts; [the tribe of] Judah shall remain in its territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall remain in its territory on the north.

1 Samuel 27:10
When Achish asked, "Where did you raid today?" David replied, "Against the Negev (the South country) of Judah, and against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites, and against the Negev of the Kenites."

2 Samuel 24:7
and they came to the stronghold of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba.

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".