Love One Another

11 For (A)this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, (B)that we should love one another.

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And now I ask you, dear lady—(A)not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—(B)that we love one another.

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12 (A)“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

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God Is Love

Beloved, (A)let us love one another, for love is from God, and (B)whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

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21 And (A)this commandment we have from him: (B)whoever loves God must also love his brother.

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34 (A)A new commandment (B)I give to you, (C)that you love one another: (D)just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 (E)By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since (A)love covers a multitude of sins.

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Suffering for Righteousness' Sake

Finally, all of you, (A)have unity of mind, sympathy, (B)brotherly love, (C)a tender heart, and (D)a humble mind.

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And (A)walk in love, (B)as Christ loved us and (C)gave himself up for us, a (D)fragrant (E)offering and sacrifice to God.

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Walking in the Light

(A)This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that (B)God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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Now concerning (A)brotherly love (B)you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been (C)taught by God (D)to love one another,

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The New Commandment

Beloved, I am writing you (A)no new commandment, but (B)an old commandment (C)that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. At the same time, it is (D)a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because[a] (E)the darkness is passing away and (F)the true light is already shining.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:8 Or that

22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for (A)a sincere brotherly love, (B)love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

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The aim of our charge is love (A)that issues from a pure heart and (B)a good conscience and (C)a sincere faith.

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