1 Peter 1:22

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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

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.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

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

From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

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,

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

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

“ ‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without defect. He shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before Yahweh.

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

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

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

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

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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

For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.” ’

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.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared 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, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

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

Let brotherly love continue.

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

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;

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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

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

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

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,

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

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

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.

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

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

“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.’

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.

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

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.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

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

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

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

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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

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,

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

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, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

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.

I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

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

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

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

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

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

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

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.