John 13:34
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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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Ephesians 5:2
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2 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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Leviticus 19:18
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18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.(A)
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John 15:17
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17 I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
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1 Peter 1:22
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22 Now that you have purified your souls[a] by your obedience to the truth[b] so that you have genuine mutual affection, love one another deeply from the heart.[c](A)
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1 Corinthians 12:26-27
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26 If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.(A)
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Galatians 6:2
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2 Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill[a] the law of Christ.(A)
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1 John 3:23
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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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1 John 4:21-5:1
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1 John 4:7-11
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God Is Love
7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.(A) 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.(B) 10 In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.(C) 11 Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.(D)
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1 John 2:7-10
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A New Commandment
7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 Yet I am writing you a new commandment that is true in him and in you, because[a] the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.(A) 9 Whoever says, “I am in the light,” while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness.(B) 10 Whoever loves a brother or sister abides in the light, and in such a person[b] there is no cause for stumbling.
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James 2:8
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8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.(A)
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1 Thessalonians 3:12
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12 And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we abound in love for you.(A)
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Colossians 3:12-13
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12 Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.(A) 13 Bear with one another and, if anyone has a complaint against another, forgive each other; just as the Lord[a] has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
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1 John 3:14-18
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14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brothers and sisters. Whoever does not love abides in death.(A) 15 All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them.(B) 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.(C) 17 How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?(D)
18 Little children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.(E)
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Romans 12:10
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10 love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
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John 15:12-13
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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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Galatians 5:13-14
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13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence,[a] but through love become enslaved to one another.(A) 14 For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”(B)
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2 John 5
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5 But now, dear lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing you a new commandment but one we have had from the beginning: let us love one another.(A)
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1 John 3:11
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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)
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Galatians 6:10
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10 So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all and especially for those of the family of faith.(A)
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1 Corinthians 13:4-7
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4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant(A) 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs;(B) 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.(C) 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.(D)
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Leviticus 19:34
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34 The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the native-born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.(A)
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2 Thessalonians 1:3
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Thanksgiving
3 We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.(A)
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Philippians 2:1-5
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Imitating Christ’s Humility
2 If, then, there is any comfort in Christ, any consolation from love, any partnership in the Spirit, any tender affection and sympathy,(A) 2 make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.(B) 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.(C) 4 Let each of you look not to your own interests but to the interests of others.(D) 5 Let the same mind be in you that was[a] in Christ Jesus,(E)
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