1 John 4:21

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

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

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

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

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

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

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.

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

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,

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

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

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

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

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.

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.

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.

You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

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

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

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.

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 brotherly love continue.

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

“ ‘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.

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

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

He said, “He who showed mercy on him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

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

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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

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

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

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

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away and the true light already shines.

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.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

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

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’