John 13:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

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  • Lev 19:18 : 18 Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:
  • Gal 6:2 : 2 Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.
  • 1 Cor 12:26-27 : 26 And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.
  • 1 John 2:7-9 : 7 My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears. 8 Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out. 9 He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark. 10 He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.
  • 1 John 3:23 : 23 And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.
  • John 15:17 : 17 So this is my law for you: Have love one for another.
  • 2 John 1:5 : 5 And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.
  • 1 John 3:11 : 11 Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;
  • Gal 5:13-14 : 13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another. 14 For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
  • 1 Thess 3:12 : 12 And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;
  • 1 John 3:14-18 : 14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death. 15 Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him. 16 In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers. 17 But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him? 18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
  • Heb 13:1 : 1 Go on loving your brothers in the faith.
  • 1 John 4:21-5:1 : 21 And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother. 1 Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.
  • Jas 2:8 : 8 But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:
  • 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God. 8 He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love. 9 And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. 10 And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins. 11 My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.
  • 1 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride: 9 Not giving back evil for evil, or curse for curse, but in place of cursing, blessing; because this is the purpose of God for you that you may have a heritage of blessing.
  • Col 3:12-13 : 12 As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things; 13 Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:
  • 1 Thess 4:9-9 : 9 But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary; 10 And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still more;
  • John 17:21 : 21 May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me.
  • 1 Cor 13:4-7 : 4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; 5 Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; 6 It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; 7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.
  • Rom 12:10 : 10 Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;
  • Lev 19:34 : 34 Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
  • Ps 16:3 : 3 As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.
  • Ps 119:63 : 63 I keep company with all your worshippers, and those who have your orders in their memory.
  • John 15:12-13 : 12 This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you. 13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.
  • 2 Thess 1:3 : 3 It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;
  • Phil 2:1-5 : 1 If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity, 2 Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind; 3 Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself; 4 Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others. 5 Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,
  • Col 1:4 : 4 After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints,
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,
  • Gal 6:10 : 10 So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and specially to those who are of the family of the faith.
  • 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

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