Joh 13:34, Rom 13:8, 1Cor 13, Eph 4:3, 5:2, Col 2:2, 1Th 4:9, 1Ti 1:5, 1Pe 4:8, 1Jo 3:23, 4:21 | ISV | STEP | I am giving you a new commandment to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.

John 13:34

34 I am giving you a new commandment to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.Lev 19:18; John 15:12, 17; Eph 5:2; 1Thes 4:9; James 2:8; 1Pet 1:22; 1John 2:7-8; 4:21

Romans 13:8

8 Love One AnotherDo not owe anyone anything—except to love one another. For the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.Rom 13:10; Gal 5:14; Col 3:14; 1Tim 1:5; James 2:8

1 Corinthians 13

1 The Supremacy of Love

If I speak in the tongues of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing.Matt 7:22; 17:20; Mark 11:23; Luke 17:6; 1Cor 12:8-10, 28; 14:1 3 Even if I give away all that I have and surrender my body so that I may boast ^{▼▼Other mss. read my body to be burned} but have no love, I get nothing out of it.Matt 6:1-2

4 Love is always patient,Prov 10:12; 1Pet 4:8

Love is always kind,

Love is never envious

Or vaunted up with pride.

Nor is she conceited,

5 And never is she rude,1Cor 10:24; Phil 2:4

Never does she think of self

Or ever get annoyed.

She never is resentful,

6 Is never glad with sin,Ps 10:3; Rom 1:32; 2John 1:4

But always glad to side with truth,

Whene'er the truth should win. ^{▼▼Lit. but rejoices in the truth}

7 She bears up under everything,Rom 15:1; Gal 6:2; 2Tim 2:24

Believes the best in all,

There is no limit to her hope,

And never will she fall.

8 Love never fails. Now if there are prophecies, they will be done away with. If there are tongues, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For what we know is incomplete and what we prophesy is incomplete.1Cor 8:2 10 But when what is complete ^{▼▼Or perfect} comes, then what is incomplete will be done away with.

11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways. 12 Now we see only a blurred reflection in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now what I know is incomplete, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.Matt 18:10; 2Cor 3:18; 5:7; Phil 3:12; 1John 3:2

13 Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Ephesians 4:3

3 Do your best to maintain the unity of the Spirit by means of the bond of peace.Col 3:14

Ephesians 5:2

2 Live 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

Colossians 2:2

2 Because they are united in love, I pray ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks I pray} that their hearts may be encouraged by all the riches that come from a complete understanding of the full knowledge of Christ, who is the secret of God.2Cor 1:6; Phil 3:8; Col 1:9; 3:14

1 Thessalonians 4:9

9 Now 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; 4:21

1 Timothy 1:5

5 The goal of this instruction is love that flows from a pure heart, from a clear conscience, and from a sincere faith.Rom 13:8, 10; Gal 5:14; 2Tim 2:22

1 Peter 4:8

8 Above all, continue to love each other deeply, because love covers a multitude of sins.Prov 10:12; 1Cor 13:7; Col 3:14; Heb 13:1; James 5:20

1 John 3:23

23 And this is his commandment: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.Matt 22:39; John 6:29; 13:34; 15:12; 17:3; Eph 5:2; 1Thes 4:9; 1Pet 4:8; 1John 2:8, 10

1 John 4:21

21 And 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