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and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.

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Concluding Words

13 Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters.[a]

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  1. 13:1 Greek Continue in brotherly love.

10 Love each other with genuine affection,[a] and take delight in honoring each other.

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  1. 12:10 Greek with brotherly love.

12 And may the Lord make your love for one another and for all people grow and overflow, just as our love for you overflows.

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34 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. 35 Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

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Love Is the Greatest

13 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;[a] but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages[b] and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!

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  1. 13:3 Some manuscripts read sacrificed my body to be burned.
  2. 13:8 Or in tongues.

21 And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers.[a]

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  1. 4:21 Greek The one who loves God must also love his brother.

17 Respect everyone, and love the family of believers.[a] Fear God, and respect the king.

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  1. 2:17 Greek love the brotherhood.

22 You were cleansed from your sins when you obeyed the truth, so now you must show sincere love to each other as brothers and sisters.[a] Love each other deeply with all your heart.[b]

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  1. 1:22a Greek must have brotherly love.
  2. 1:22b Some manuscripts read with a pure heart.

15 See that no one pays back evil for evil, but always try to do good to each other and to all people.

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But we don’t need to write to you about the importance of loving each other,[a] for God himself has taught you to love one another. 10 Indeed, you already show your love for all the believers[b] throughout Macedonia. Even so, dear brothers and sisters, we urge you to love them even more.

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  1. 4:9 Greek about brotherly love.
  2. 4:10 Greek the brothers.

10 Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith.

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16 We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.

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14 If we love our brothers and sisters who are believers,[a] it proves that we have passed from death to life. But a person who has no love is still dead.

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  1. 3:14 Greek the brothers; similarly in 3:16.

All Christians

Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters.[a] Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude.

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  1. 3:8 Greek Show brotherly love.

14 Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony.

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