Ephesians 4:3

“ ‘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.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

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

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

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

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 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.

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

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

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

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

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

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.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

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.

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

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.

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

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

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.

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

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

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

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

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.

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

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

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.

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

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”

A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called “The Holy Way”. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools shall not go there.

You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

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.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

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;

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

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

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

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

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

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

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

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.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

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

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.

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

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,

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

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Let brotherly love continue.