2 John 1:5

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

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

“ ‘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.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

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

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

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,

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

But whoever has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, then closes his heart of compassion against him, how does God’s love remain in him?

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

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.

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.”

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.”

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

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

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.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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

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

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.

If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

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

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

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

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

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.

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

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

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.

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,

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

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.

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.

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.

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

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

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

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.

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

The elder, to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth, and not I only, but also all those who know the truth,

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.

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

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

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

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,

Let brotherly love continue.

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.

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

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?