²¹ And he has given us this command:^(A) Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.^(B)

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¹¹ For this is the message you heard^(A) from the beginning:^(B) We should love one another.^(C)

¹⁸ “‘Do not seek revenge^(A) or bear a grudge^(B) against anyone among your people,^(C) but love your neighbor^(D) as yourself.^(E) I am the Lord.

⁹ Now about your love for one another^(A) we do not need to write to you,^(B) for you yourselves have been taught by God^(C) to love each other.^(D)

³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’^{[a](A) 38} This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’^[b](B)

¹¹ Dear friends,^(A) since God so loved us,^(B) we also ought to love one another.^(C)

²³ And this is his command: to believe^(A) in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,^(B) and to love one another as he commanded us.^(C)

¹⁸ Dear children,^(A) let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.^(B)

¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death to life,^(A) because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.^(B)