Hebrews 13:1

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

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

“ ‘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 though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

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.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

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

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

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

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

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.

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

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.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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

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.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

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

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

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

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

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

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.

All who believed were together, and had all things in common.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

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

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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.

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

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

For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

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

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

that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,

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;

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

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

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,

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.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

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

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

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.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother’s son, and said, “Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me?” He said, “God be gracious to you, my son.”

‘Yahweh says, “You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers! Every man return to his house; for this thing is of me.” ’ ” So they listened to Yahweh’s words, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

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

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

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,

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

Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.

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

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.

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.

Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

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.

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,

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

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.

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

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.