John 13:34

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.

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

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.”

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.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

“ ‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

“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.

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.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

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

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,

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

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,

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

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

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,

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

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.

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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;

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;

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,

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Let brotherly love continue.

If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.

My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.

‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

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.

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

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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

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.”

They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?

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

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

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—