Verse 34

'I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.'

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  • Lev 19:18 : 18 Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial offering to God, a pleasing aroma.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.
  • Gal 6:2 : 2 Carry one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 12:26-27 : 26 If one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. If one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
  • 1 John 2:7-9 : 7 Dear brothers and sisters, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old one that you have had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have already heard. 8 Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in Him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining. 9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates their brother or sister is still in the darkness. 10 Whoever loves their brother or sister abides in the light, and in them there is no cause for stumbling.
  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 Now this is His commandment: that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He commanded us.
  • John 15:17 : 17 This is my command: Love one another.
  • 2 John 1:5 : 5 And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I am writing you a new commandment, but one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another.
  • 1 John 3:11 : 11 For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.
  • Gal 5:13-14 : 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 And may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another and for all people, just as we also do for you.
  • 1 John 3:14-18 : 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates their brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in them. 16 This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 But whoever has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need, yet closes his heart against them, how does the love of God abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.
  • Heb 13:1 : 1 Let brotherly love continue.
  • 1 John 4:21-5:1 : 21 And this commandment we have from Him: Whoever loves God must also love their brother or sister. 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well.
  • Jas 2:8 : 8 If you truly fulfill the royal law according to Scripture, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself,' you are doing well.
  • 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
  • 1 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 Finally, all of you be like-minded and sympathetic, love one another as brothers and sisters, be tenderhearted and humble. 9 Do not repay evil for evil or insult for insult, but on the contrary, give a blessing, because to this you were called, so that you may inherit a blessing.
  • Col 3:12-13 : 12 Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. 13 Bear with one another and forgive one another if anyone has a grievance against another. Just as the Lord forgave you, so also you must forgive.
  • 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. 10 And indeed you are doing this toward all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel even more.
  • John 17:21 : 21 That all of them may be one, just as You, Father, are in Me and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me.
  • 1 Cor 13:4-7 : 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight, but faith working through love does.
  • Rom 12:10 : 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.
  • Lev 19:34 : 34 Treat the foreigner residing among you as your native-born and love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
  • Ps 16:3 : 3 As for the holy ones who are in the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
  • Ps 119:63 : 63 I am a companion to all who fear You, to those who keep Your precepts.
  • John 15:12-13 : 12 This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 We always ought to give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of each one of you for one another is increasing.
  • Phil 2:1-5 : 1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any tenderness and compassion, 2 make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being united in spirit, and intent on one purpose. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have the same mindset in yourselves that was also in Christ Jesus:
  • Col 1:4 : 4 since we have heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints.
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  • Gal 6:10 : 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, especially to those who belong to the household of faith.
  • 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 to godliness, brotherly love; and to brotherly love, love.