²¹ And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

¹¹ For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

¹⁸ Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

⁹ But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

³⁷ Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

³⁸ This is the first and great commandment.

³⁹ And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

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.

¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

⁸ And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.