⁸ Above all, love each other deeply,^(A) because love covers over a multitude of sins.^(B)

² then make my joy complete^(A) by being like-minded,^(B) having the same love, being one^(C) in spirit and of one mind.

³⁴ “A new command^(A) I give you: Love one another.^(B) As I have loved you, so you must love one another.^(C)

²⁰ For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”^(A)

¹⁵ Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.^{(A) 16} If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?^{(B) 17} In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.^(C)

¹⁸ But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”

Show me your faith without deeds,^(D) and I will show you my faith^(E) by my deeds.^{(F) 19} You believe that there is one God.^(G) Good! Even the demons believe that^(H)—and shudder.

²⁰ You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless^[a]?^{(I) 21} Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?^(J)