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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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By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
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Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
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Love Fulfills the Law
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.
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Final Greetings
Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
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Life by the Spirit
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
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Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
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Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.
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Thanksgiving and Prayer
We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.
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And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds,
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Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart.
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Suffering for Doing Good
Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.
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Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.
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More on Love and Hatred
For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
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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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God’s Love and Ours
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
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Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
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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.