John 13:34-35
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34 “A new command(A) I give you: Love one another.(B) As I have loved you, so you must love one another.(C) 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”(D)
John 15:12-17
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12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.(A) 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.(B) 14 You are my friends(C) if you do what I command.(D) 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.(E) 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you(F) so that you might go and bear fruit(G)—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.(H) 17 This is my command: Love each other.(I)
Romans 12:9-10
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Love in Action
9 Love must be sincere.(A) Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.(B) 10 Be devoted to one another in love.(C) Honor one another above yourselves.(D)
Romans 13:8-10
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Love Fulfills the Law
8 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.(A) 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,”[a](B) and whatever other command there may be, are summed up(C) in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b](D) 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.(E)
Footnotes
- Romans 13:9 Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deut. 5:17-19,21
- Romans 13:9 Lev. 19:18
Galatians 5:14
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14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[a](A)
Footnotes
- Galatians 5:14 Lev. 19:18
Galatians 6:10
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10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good(A) to all people, especially to those who belong to the family(B) of believers.
Ephesians 1:15
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Thanksgiving and Prayer
15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus(A) and your love for all God’s people,(B)
1 Peter 1:22
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22 Now that you have purified(A) yourselves by obeying(B) the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply,(C) from the heart.[a]
Footnotes
- 1 Peter 1:22 Some early manuscripts from a pure heart
1 Peter 3:8
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Suffering for Doing Good
8 Finally, all of you, be like-minded,(A) be sympathetic, love one another,(B) be compassionate and humble.(C)
1 Peter 4:8
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1 John 3:16
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16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.(A) And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.(B)
1 John 3:4-12
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4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.(A) 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins.(B) And in him is no sin.(C) 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning.(D) No one who continues to sin has either seen him(E) or known him.(F)
7 Dear children,(G) do not let anyone lead you astray.(H) The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.(I) 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil,(J) because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God(K) appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.(L) 9 No one who is born of God(M) will continue to sin,(N) because God’s seed(O) remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God(P) are and who the children of the devil(Q) are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love(R) their brother and sister.(S)
More on Love and Hatred
11 For this is the message you heard(T) from the beginning:(U) We should love one another.(V) 12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one(W) and murdered his brother.(X) And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous.(Y)
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