Colossians 3:14

Let all that you do be done in love.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

“ ‘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.

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

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

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

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.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

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

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

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

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

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.”

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

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

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.

and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

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

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.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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

See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

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

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.

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

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

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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

I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

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,

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

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

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.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

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

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

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

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

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

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.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

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 brotherly love continue.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

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

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

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

I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt. He will burn them, and carry them away captive. He will array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he will go out from there in peace.

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

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

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

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,

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.