Mar 12:28-34, Rom 14:15, 1Cor 8:1-3, 13:0-14:1, 1Pe 4:8, 2Pe 1:7 | ESV | STEP | And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well , asked him , Which commandment is the most important of all ?

28 ^aAnd one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ^b‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, ^cthe Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 ^dThe second is this: ^e‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment ^fgreater than these.” 32 And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that ^ghe is one, and ^hthere is no other besides him. 33 And to love him with all the heart and with all ⁱthe understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, ^jis much more than all ^kwhole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” ^lAnd after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Romans 14:15

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

1 Corinthians 8:1-3

Food Offered to Idols

1 Now concerning ^{▼▼The expression Now concerning introduces a reply to a question in the Corinthians’ letter; see 7:1} ^pfood offered to idols: we know that ^q“all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” ^rpuffs up, ^sbut love builds up. 2 ^tIf anyone imagines that he knows something, ^uhe does not yet know as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, ^vhe is known by God. ^{▼▼Greek him}

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 ^xprophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, ^yso as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 ^zIf I give away all I have, and ^aaif 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 ^acLove is patient and ^adkind; love ^aedoes not envy or boast; it ^afis not arrogant 5 or rude. It ^agdoes not insist on its own way; it ^ahis not irritable or resentful; ^{▼▼Greek irritable and does not count up wrongdoing} 6 it ^ajdoes not rejoice at wrongdoing, but ^akrejoices with the truth. 7 ^alLove bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, ^amendures 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 ^anwe know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but ^aowhen 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 ^apnow we see in a mirror dimly, but ^aqthen face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as ^arI 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 ^asPursue love, and ^atearnestly desire the ^auspiritual gifts, especially that you may ^avprophesy.

1 Peter 4:8

8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since ^awlove covers a multitude of sins.

2 Peter 1:7

7 and godliness ^axwith brotherly affection, and brotherly affection ^aywith love.