1 John 5:2

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

“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.

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

Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

“ ‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.

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

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world.

“ ‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh.

Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried. Men won’t lament for them, cut themselves, or make themselves bald for them.

men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.

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

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

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

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,

But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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

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.

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

who testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

Again she gave birth, to Cain’s brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

“ ‘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.

“It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”

Let all that you do be done in love.

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

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.

I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”

But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be filled, they were very angry;

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.’

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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

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

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

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.”

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

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

and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

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.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

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.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.

They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.

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

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.

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.

The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.