John 15:12

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.

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

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.

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

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

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,

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

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.

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.”

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

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.

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

“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.

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.

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

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

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

Let brotherly love continue.

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

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.

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

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

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;

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

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

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

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.

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

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

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

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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.

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,

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

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.

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

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

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.

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,

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

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,

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

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.

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going. How can we know the way?”

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,