Acts 17:19

“ ‘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.

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.

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,

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

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

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

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.

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.

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,

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

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Let brotherly love continue.

They were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching? For with authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!”

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

But certain men joined with him and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

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

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.

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

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

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

The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.

Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

He called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.

but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

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

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

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

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

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.

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

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

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,

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

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

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.

Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’ ”

They lifted up their voices and wept again; then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth stayed with her.

Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.”

Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.

Say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says, “Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears will tingle.

Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.

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

Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn’t repent.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”

He commanded him to tell no one, “But go your way, and show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing according to what Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.”

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

“Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

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

They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.

For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”

“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”

But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”

But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”

Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.

“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,

For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

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

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;

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

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.

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

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

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—