Psalms 16:3

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.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

“ ‘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.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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.

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.

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

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

Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

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.

Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

They will call them “The Holy People, Yahweh’s Redeemed”. You will be called “Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken”.

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

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,

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

Let brotherly love continue.

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

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

So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies.

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine. He browses among the lilies.

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.”

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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.

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

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

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.

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”

because an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.”

They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

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

Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.

They said to her, “No, but we will return with you to your people.”

Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

“Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.

“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name.

He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved.

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.

Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

I am my beloved’s. His desire is toward me.

You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, “Lord, behold, he for whom you have great affection is sick.”

But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

As Peter went throughout all those parts, he came down also to the saints who lived at Lydda.

I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

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.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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,

to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

hearing of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints,

in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

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.