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Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ.

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Living to Please Others

15 We who are strong must be considerate of those who are sensitive about things like this. We must not just please ourselves.

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14 Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy. Encourage those who are timid. Take tender care of those who are weak. Be patient with everyone.

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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.

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

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Footnotes

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

Yes indeed, it is good when you obey the royal law as found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[a]

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  1. 2:8 Lev 19:18.

12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.

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13 For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. 14 For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[a]

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  1. 5:14 Lev 19:18.

14 And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. 15 I have given you an example to follow. Do as I have done to you.

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If you see that the donkey of someone who hates you has collapsed under its load, do not walk by. Instead, stop and help.

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Yet it is also new. Jesus lived the truth of this commandment, and you also are living it. For the darkness is disappearing, and the true light is already shining.

If anyone claims, “I am living in the light,” but hates a fellow believer,[a] that person is still living in darkness. 10 Anyone who loves a fellow believer[b] is living in the light and does not cause others to stumble. 11 But anyone who hates a fellow believer is still living and walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded by the darkness.

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  1. 2:9 Greek hates his brother; also in 2:11.
  2. 2:10 Greek loves his brother.

24 He personally carried our sins
    in his body on the cross
so that we can be dead to sin
    and live for what is right.
By his wounds
    you are healed.

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21 When I am with the Gentiles who do not follow the Jewish law,[a] I too live apart from that law so I can bring them to Christ. But I do not ignore the law of God; I obey the law of Christ.

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  1. 9:21 Greek those without the law.

And because you belong to him, the power[a] of the life-giving Spirit has freed you[b] from the power of sin that leads to death.

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  1. 8:2a Greek the law; also in 8:2b.
  2. 8:2b Some manuscripts read me.

29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”

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17 This fulfilled the word of the Lord through the prophet Isaiah, who said,

“He took our sicknesses
    and removed our diseases.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 8:17 Isa 53:4.

11 And Moses said to the Lord, “Why are you treating me, your servant, so harshly? Have mercy on me! What did I do to deserve the burden of all these people? 12 Did I give birth to them? Did I bring them into the world? Why did you tell me to carry them in my arms like a mother carries a nursing baby? How can I carry them to the land you swore to give their ancestors?

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For we are each responsible for our own conduct.

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“No, this is the kind of fasting I want:
Free those who are wrongly imprisoned;
    lighten the burden of those who work for you.
Let the oppressed go free,
    and remove the chains that bind people.

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12 But you are such a heavy load to carry! How can I deal with all your problems and bickering?

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46 “Yes,” said Jesus, “what sorrow also awaits you experts in religious law! For you crush people with unbearable religious demands, and you never lift a finger to ease the burden.

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