Colossians 1:4

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.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

“ ‘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.

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

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.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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

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

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

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

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

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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

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

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

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.”

“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.

For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,

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.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

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.

“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

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.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

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,

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

Let brotherly love continue.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

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

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

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.

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

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

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

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

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

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

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

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

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

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

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

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

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,

Command and teach these things.

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

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

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

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.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

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.

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

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

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

who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,

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

and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,

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;

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

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,

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

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.

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.

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

We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.