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John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Galatians 5:13-14
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this:“ You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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1 Peter 4 8
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
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1 Corinthians 12 31-1 Corinthians 14 1
But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.For we know in part and we prophesy in part;but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.But now faith, hope, and love remain— these three. The greatest of these is love.Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
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Romans 13:8-10
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.For the commandments,“ You shall not commit adultery,”“ You shall not murder,”“ You shall not steal,”“ You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely,“ You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”Love doesn’t harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.
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Romans 14:15
Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
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1 Corinthians 8 1
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
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1 Timothy 1 5
but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,
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Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
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1 Thessalonians 4 9-1 Thessalonians 4 10
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;
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Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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1 John 4 7-1 John 4 8
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
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2 Thessalonians 1 3
We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,
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Philippians 2:1-3
If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,make my joy full by being like- minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
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2 Peter 1 7
and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
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John 15:17
“ I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
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Ephesians 4:1-3
I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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1 Thessalonians 3 6
But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,
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1 Thessalonians 3 12
May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,