¹⁰ Love one another deeply as brothers and sisters.^(A) Take the lead in honoring one another.^(B)

Loving and Working

⁹ About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God^(A) to love one another.^(B)

Final Exhortations

13 Let brotherly love^(A) continue.

²² Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth,^[a] so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other,^(A) from a pure^[b] heart love one another constantly,^[c](B)

¹⁰ This is how God’s children and the devil’s children become obvious. Whoever does not do what is right is not of God, especially the one who does not love his brother or sister.^(A)

¹⁴ We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.^{(A) 15} Everyone who hates his brother or sister^(B) is a murderer,^(C) and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. ¹⁶ This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life^(D) for us.^(E) We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.^{(F) 17} If anyone has this world’s goods^(G) and sees a fellow believer^[a] in need^(H) but withholds compassion^(I) from him—how does God’s love reside in him?^(J)

²⁰ If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet hates his brother or sister,^(A) he is a liar.^(B) For the person who does not love his brother or sister^(C) whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.^{[a] 21} And we have this command from him: The one who loves God must also love his brother and sister.