Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

Continue in brotherly love.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

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

Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

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

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. . . .

Do everything in love.

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.

By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.

But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

A song of ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Continue in brotherly love. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

This is My command to you: Love one another.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

But to those of you who will listen, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

We love because He first loved us.

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.”

And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love for one another and for everyone else, just as our love for you overflows,

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.

And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.

By this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His commandments.

and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.

Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight, you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. . . .

Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD that I am giving you this day for your own good?

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

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

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love.

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

If you really fulfill the royal law stated in Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.

Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent. And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground. “My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by. Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree. And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.” . . .

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.

Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering. Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated. You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.

If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.

As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love.

Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.