Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant.

‘A new command I give you: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.’

At this, some of his disciples said to one another, ‘What does he mean by saying, “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me,” and “Because I am going to the Father” ?’

Jesus saw that they wanted to ask him about this, so he said to them, ‘Are you asking one another what I meant when I said, “In a little while you will see me no more, and then after a little while you will see me”?

‘Let’s not tear it,’ they said to one another. ‘Let’s decide by lot who will get it.’ This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said, ‘They divided my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.’ So this is what the soldiers did.

and, as another scripture says, ‘They will look on the one they have pierced.’

‘For,’ said Peter, ‘it is written in the Book of Psalms: ‘“May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,” and, ‘“May another take his place of leadership.”

Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, ‘What does this mean?’

and Jason has welcomed them into his house. They are all defying Caesar’s decrees, saying that there is another king, one called Jesus.’

The assembly was in confusion: some were shouting one thing, some another. Most of the people did not even know why they were there.

Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks.

‘“Lord,” I replied, “these people know that I went from one synagogue to another to imprison and beat those who believe in you.

Many a time I went from one synagogue to another to have them punished, and I tried to force them to blaspheme. I was so obsessed with persecuting them that I even hunted them down in foreign cities.

After they left the room, they began saying to one another, ‘This man is not doing anything that deserves death or imprisonment.’

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Be devoted to one another in love. Honour one another above yourselves.

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.

Love fulfils the law

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.

One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.

One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.

Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling-block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.