2 Peter 1:7

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

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

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

“ ‘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 God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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.

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.

Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

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

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

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

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.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

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

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

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

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

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

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

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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.

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

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

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

“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.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.

Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.

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

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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

If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

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

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.

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

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

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

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.

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

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

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

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.

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

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

Let brotherly love continue.

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,

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

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

Let all that you do be done in love.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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

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,

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

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

Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.

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

Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.