1 John 3:23

For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you. I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Righteous Father, the world hasn’t known you, but I knew you; and these knew that you sent me.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

A cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,

Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

Now I beg you, dear lady, not as though I wrote to you a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

Let brotherly love continue.