Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 1 Thessalonians 4:9, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- 1 John 3:11
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
- Romans 12:10
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;
- 1 John 3:23
And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
- John 13:34
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
- Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love continue.
- 1 John 4:21
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
- 1 John 2:10
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:1
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
- 1 Peter 4:8
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
- Acts 4:32
And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was hi…
- John 15:12
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
- Ephesians 5:1
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
More to meet God in 1 Thessalonians
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.