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)

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

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10 Be devoted to one another in love.(A) Honor one another above yourselves.(B)

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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)

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Concluding Exhortations

13 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters.(A)

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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)

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

Faith in the Incarnate Son of God

Everyone who believes(C) that Jesus is the Christ(D) is born of God,(E) and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.(F)

The Day of the Lord

Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates(A) we do not need to write to you,(B)

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20 But you have an anointing(A) from the Holy One,(B) and all of you know the truth.[a](C) 21 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it(D) and because no lie comes from the truth. 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.(E) 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.(F)

24 As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning(G) remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.(H) 25 And this is what he promised us—eternal life.(I)

26 I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray.(J) 27 As for you, the anointing(K) you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things(L) and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.(M)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:20 Some manuscripts and you know all things

10 Anyone who loves their brother and sister[a] lives in the light,(A) and there is nothing in them to make them stumble.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:10 The Greek word for brother and sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in 3:10; 4:20, 21.

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

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Suffering for Doing Good

Finally, all of you, be like-minded,(A) be sympathetic, love one another,(B) be compassionate and humble.(C)

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16 “This is the covenant I will make with them
    after that time, says the Lord.
I will put my laws in their hearts,
    and I will write them on their minds.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:16 Jer. 31:33

10 This is the covenant(A) I will establish with the people of Israel
    after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
    and write them on their hearts.(B)
I will be their God,
    and they will be my people.(C)
11 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
    or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,(D)
    from the least of them to the greatest.

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Follow God’s example,(A) therefore, as dearly loved children(B) and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us(C) and gave himself up for us(D) as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.(E)

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The Believers Share Their Possessions

32 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.(A)

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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)

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26 But the Advocate,(A) the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,(B) will teach you all things(C) and will remind you of everything I have said to you.(D)

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Psalm 133

A song of ascents. Of David.

How good and pleasant it is
    when God’s people live together(A) in unity!(B)

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God’s Love and Ours

Dear friends, let us love one another,(A) for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God(B) and knows God.(C) Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.(D) This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son(E) into the world that we might live through him.(F) 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us(G) and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.(H) 11 Dear friends,(I) since God so loved us,(J) we also ought to love one another.(K) 12 No one has ever seen God;(L) but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.(M)

13 This is how we know(N) that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.(O) 14 And we have seen and testify(P) that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.(Q) 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,(R) God lives in them and they in God.(S) 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love.(T) Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.(U)

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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) 15 Anyone who hates a brother or sister(C) is a murderer,(D) and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.(E)

16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.(F) And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.(G) 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them,(H) how can the love of God be in that person?(I) 18 Dear children,(J) let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.(K)

19 This is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence:

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and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.(A)

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44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them,(A) and I will raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’[a](B) Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.

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Footnotes

  1. John 6:45 Isaiah 54:13

39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 22:39 Lev. 19:18

34 No longer will they teach(A) their neighbor,
    or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know(B) me,
    from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive(C) their wickedness
    and will remember their sins(D) no more.”

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