Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

Love Fulfills God’s Requirements

Owe nothing to anyone—except for your obligation to love one another. If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill the requirements of God’s law.

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.

And may the Lord make your love for one another and for all people grow and overflow, just as our love for you overflows.

But we don’t need to write to you about the importance of loving each other, for God himself has taught you to love one another.

Encouragement during Persecution

Dear brothers and sisters, we can’t help but thank God for you, because your faith is flourishing and your love for one another is growing.

Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.

A New Commandment

Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This old commandment—to love one another—is the same message you heard before.

Love One Another

This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

And this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us.

Loving One Another

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

I am writing to remind you, dear friends, that we should love one another. This is not a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning.

Love means doing what God has commanded us, and he has commanded us to love one another, just as you heard from the beginning.