Colossians 3:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

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  • Eph 4:3 : 3 making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
  • 1 Pet 4:8 : 8 Above all keep your love for one another fervent, because love covers a multitude of sins.
  • 1 Tim 1:5 : 5 But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.
  • John 13:34 : 34 “I give you a new commandment– to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
  • Rom 13:8 : 8 Exhortation to Love Neighbors Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-9 : 1 The Way of Love If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit. 4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. 6 It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
  • Eph 1:4 : 4 For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love.
  • John 15:12 : 12 My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.
  • John 17:23 : 23 I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.
  • Col 2:2 : 2 My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,
  • 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
  • Heb 6:1 : 1 Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,
  • 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 to godliness, brotherly affection; to brotherly affection, unselfish love.
  • 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 gave us the commandment.
  • 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God. 8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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    8But now, put off all such things as anger, rage, malice, slander, abusive language from your mouth.

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    13bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if someone happens to have a complaint against anyone else. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also forgive others.

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    17And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

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    3If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.

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    31You must put away all bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and slanderous talk– indeed all malice.

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

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    14Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

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    24and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image– in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.

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    19So then, let us pursue what makes for peace and for building up one another.

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    11Final Exhortations and Greetings Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, set things right, be encouraged, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

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    1Prophecy and Tongues Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

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    5But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

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    7And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

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    2My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches that assurance brings in their understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely, Christ,

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    27For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

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