Romans 13:8

“ ‘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 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.”

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.

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.

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.

“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.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

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.

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

Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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;

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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.

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

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

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Let brotherly love continue.

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man’s money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle’s son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

He said, “Yes.” When he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth receive toll or tribute? From their children, or from strangers?”

The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

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

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,

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

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

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.

the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.

As they emptied their sacks, behold, each man’s bundle of money was in his sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

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

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

He said to them, “Then give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

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.

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

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

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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

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

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.

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

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

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 the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

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

that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me among you as a possession for a burial place.”

He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.”

Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard.

and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

When we came to the lodging place, we opened our sacks, and behold, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight. We have brought it back in our hand.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

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