²⁴ Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

²² Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

¹⁴ Greet one another with a kiss of love.

Peace be to all of you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

¹¹ For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

²³ This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

⁷ Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

¹¹ Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

¹² No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

⁵ Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.