Hebrews 13:1

New American Standard Bible

Let love of the brothers and sisters 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 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.

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 love of the brothers and sisters continue.² Do not neglect hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it. ³ Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are badly treated, since you yourselves also are in the body. ⁴ Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. ⁵ Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, "I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER ABANDON YOU," ⁶ so that we confidently say, "THE LORD IS MY HELPER, I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?" ⁷ Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their way of life, imitate their faith. ⁸ Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever. ⁹ Do not be misled by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited. ¹⁰ We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle 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 the entire land not before you? Please separate from me; if you choose 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 land of the Negev, and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he lived for a time in Gerar.

Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

Joshua 10:40
So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country and the Negev and the lowland and the slopes, 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
"And they shall divide it into seven portions; Judah shall stay in its territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay in their territory on the north.

1 Samuel 27:10
Now Achish said, "Where did you carry out an attack today?" And David said, "Against the Negev of Judah, against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites, and against the Negev of the Kenites."

2 Samuel 24:7
then they came to the fortress of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the 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".