Joh 13:34-35, 15:17, Rom 13:8-10, 14:15, 1Cor 8:1, 12:31-14:1 | ESV | STEP | A new commandment I give to you , that you love one another : just as I have loved you , you also are to love one another .

34 ^aA new commandment ^bI give to you, ^cthat you love one another: ^djust as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 ^eBy this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 15:17

17 These things I command you, ^fso that you will love one another.

Romans 13:8-10

Fulfilling the Law Through Love

8 ^gOwe no one anything, except to love each other, for ^hthe one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, ⁱ“You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: ^j“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore ^klove is the fulfilling of the law.

Romans 14:15

15 For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, ^lyou are no longer walking in love. ^mBy what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Food Offered to Idols

1 Now concerning ^{▼▼The expression Now concerning introduces a reply to a question in the Corinthians’ letter; see 7:1} ^ofood offered to idols: we know that ^p“all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” ^qpuffs up, ^rbut love builds up.

1 Corinthians 12:31

31 But ^searnestly desire the higher gifts.

And I will show you a still more excellent way.

1 Corinthians 13

The Way of Love

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have ^tprophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, ^uso as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 ^vIf I give away all I have, and ^wif I deliver up my body to be burned, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts deliver up my body [to death] that I may boast} but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 ^yLove is patient and ^zkind; love ^aadoes not envy or boast; it ^abis not arrogant 5 or rude. It ^acdoes not insist on its own way; it ^adis not irritable or resentful; ^{▼▼Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing} 6 it ^afdoes not rejoice at wrongdoing, but ^agrejoices with the truth. 7 ^ahLove bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, ^aiendures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For ^ajwe know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but ^akwhen the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For ^alnow we see in a mirror dimly, but ^amthen face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as ^anI have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 14:1

Prophecy and Tongues

1 ^aoPursue love, and ^apearnestly desire the ^aqspiritual gifts, especially that you may ^arprophesy.