Leviticus 19:18
John 15:12
12“This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.John 13:34; 1Thes 4:9; 1Pet 4:8; 1John 3:11; 4:21John 15:17
17I am giving you these commandments so that you may love one another.”John 15:12Ephesians 5:2
2Live in love as Christ also loved us ▼▼Other mss. read you
and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God.Gen 8:21; Lev 1:9; John 13:34; 15:12; 2Cor 2:15; Gal 1:4; 2:20; 1Thes 4:9; Heb 7:27; 1John 3:11, 16, 23; 4:21 1 Thessalonians 4:9
9Now you do not need anyone to write to you about brotherly love, since you have been taught by God to love each other.Jer 31:34; Matt 22:39; John 6:45; 13:34; 14:26; 15:12; Eph 5:2; 1Thes 5:1; Heb 8:11; 1Pet 4:8; 1John 2:20, 27; 4:21James 2:8
8Nevertheless, you are doing the right thing if you obey the royal law in keeping with the Scripture, “You must love your neighbor as yourself.” ▼▼Lev 19:18
Lev 19:18; Matt 22:39; Rom 13:8-9; Gal 5:14; 6:2 1 Peter 1:22
22Love One AnotherNow that you have obeyed the truth ▼▼Other mss. read the truth through the Spirit
and have purified your souls to love your brothers sincerely, you must love one another intensely and with a pure heart.Acts 15:9; Rom 12:9-10; 1Thes 4:9; 1Tim 1:5; Heb 13:1; 1Pet 2:17; 3:8; 4:8; 2Pet 1:7; 1John 3:18 1 John 2:7-8
7We Must Obey God's CommandmentsDear friends, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have heard.1John 3:11; 2John 1:5 8On the other hand, I am writing to you a new commandment that is true in him and in you. For the darkness is fading away, and the true light is already shining.John 1:9; 8:12; 12:35; 13:34; 15:12; Rom 13:12; Eph 5:8; 1Thes 5:5, 81 John 4:21
21And this is the commandment that we have from him: the person who loves God must also love his brother.Matt 22:37, 39; John 13:34; 15:12; 1John 3:23
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