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The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
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“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
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Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
“If you love me, keep my commands.
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Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
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but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me. “Come now; let us leave.
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If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
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My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
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This is my command: Love each other.
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The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.
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For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
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Love and Hatred for Fellow Believers
We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.
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And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.
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And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.
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This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.
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In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,
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And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another.
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And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.