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and walk in love, as Christ loved us[a] and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.(A)

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  1. 5.2 Other ancient authorities read you

34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.(A)

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20 and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,[a] who loved me and gave himself for me.(A)

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  1. 2.20 Or by faith in the Son of God

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

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15 For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing:(A)

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28 just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”(A)

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14 Let all that you do be done in love.(A)

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14 He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.(A)

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For you know the generous act[a] of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.(A)

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  1. 8.9 Gk the grace or gift

Above all, maintain constant love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins.(A)

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21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his steps.(A)

22 “He committed no sin,
    and no deceit was found in his mouth.”

23 When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.(B) 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross,[a] so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds[b] you have been healed.(C)

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  1. 2.24 Or carried up our sins in his body to the tree
  2. 2.24 Gk bruise

25 Consequently, he is able for all time to save[a] those who approach God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.(A)

26 For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, blameless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.(B) 27 Unlike the other[b] high priests, he has no need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; this he did once for all when he offered himself.(C)

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  1. 7.25 Or able to save completely
  2. 7.27 Gk lacks other

12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.(A) 13 No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.(B)

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21 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humans, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.(A)

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and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

To him who loves us and freed[a] us from our sins by his blood

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  1. 1.5 Other ancient authorities read washed

16 We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.(A)

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10 And it is by God’s will[a] that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.(A)

11 And every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins.(B) 12 But when Christ[b] had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, “he sat down at the right hand of God,”

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  1. 10.10 Gk by that will
  2. 10.12 Gk this one

26 for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself.(A)

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14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit[a] offered himself without blemish to God, purify our[b] conscience from dead works to worship the living God!(A)

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  1. 9.14 Other ancient authorities read Holy Spirit
  2. 9.14 Other ancient authorities read your

20 Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.(A) 21 The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.

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23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.(A)

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Love One Another

11 For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.(A) 12 We must not be like Cain, who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.

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Christ’s Sacrifice Takes Away Sin

23 Thus it was necessary for the sketches of the heavenly things to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves need better sacrifices than these.

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12 Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.(A)

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    who gave himself a ransom for all

—this was attested at the right time.(A)

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