10 (A)Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, (B)in honor giving preference to one another;

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Concluding Moral Directions

13 Let (A)brotherly love continue.

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34 (A)A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 (B)By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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(A)Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but (B)in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

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11 Beloved, (A)if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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Called to Blessing

Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be [a]courteous; (A)not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary (B)blessing, knowing that you were called to this, (C)that you may inherit a blessing.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 3:8 NU humble

The Enduring Word

22 Since you (A)have purified your souls in obeying the truth [a]through the Spirit in [b]sincere (B)love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 1:22 NU omits through the Spirit
  2. 1 Peter 1:22 Lit. unhypocritical

17 Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear (A)God. Honor the king.

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A Brotherly and Orderly Life

But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for (A)you yourselves are taught by God (B)to love one another;

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13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only (A)do not use liberty as an (B)opportunity for the flesh, but (C)through love serve one another.

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Walk in Unity

I, therefore, the prisoner [a]of the Lord, [b]beseech you to (A)walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit (B)in the bond of peace.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 4:1 Lit. in
  2. Ephesians 4:1 exhort, encourage

22 But (A)the fruit of the Spirit is (B)love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, (C)goodness, (D)faithfulness,

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Blessed Unity of the People of God

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

133 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For (A)brethren to dwell together in unity!

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Obedience by Faith

20 (A)If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, [a]how can he love God (B)whom he has not seen? 21 And (C)this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

Obedience by Faith

Whoever believes that (D)Jesus is the Christ is (E)born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and (F)keep His commandments.

Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:20 NU he cannot

to godliness brotherly kindness, and (A)to brotherly kindness love.

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Submit to God, Resist the Devil

Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, (A)all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for

(B)“God resists the proud,
But (C)gives grace to the humble.”

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17 These things I command you, that you love one another.

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26 Yet (A)it shall not be so among you; but (B)whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.

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The Imperative of Love(A)

10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. 11 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, (B)that we should love one another, 12 not as (C)Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.

13 Do not marvel, my brethren, if (D)the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love [a]his brother abides in death. 15 (E)Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that (F)no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

The Outworking of Love

16 (G)By this we know love, (H)because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But (I)whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

18 My little children, (J)let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 3:14 NU omits his brother

God’s Final Judgment and Glory

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other,

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(A)Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.

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Sharing in All Things

32 Now the multitude of those who believed (A)were of one heart and one soul; (B)neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

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10 (A)But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.

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And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

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(A)He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now. 10 (B)He who loves his brother abides in the light, and (C)there is no cause for stumbling in him. 11 But he who (D)hates his brother is in darkness and (E)walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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