And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples."

This, then, is what I command you: love one another.

I pray that they may all be one. Father! May they be in us, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they be one, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

The group of believers was one in mind and heart. None of them said that any of their belongings were their own, but they all shared with one another everything they had.

For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.

As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another.

But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

I urge you, then---I who am a prisoner because I serve the Lord: live a life that measures up to the standard God set when he called you.

Do your best to preserve the unity which the Spirit gives by means of the peace that binds you together.

For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of your love for all God's people.

There is no need to write you about love for each other. You yourselves have been taught by God how you should love one another.

Our friends, we must thank God at all times for you. It is right for us to do so, because your faith is growing so much and the love each of you has for the others is becoming greater.

Keep on loving one another as Christians.

Now that by your obedience to the truth you have purified yourselves and have come to have a sincere love for other believers, love one another earnestly with all your heart.

Respect everyone, love other believers, honor God, and respect the Emperor.

To conclude: you must all have the same attitude and the same feelings; love one another, and be kind and humble with one another.

Do not pay back evil with evil or cursing with cursing; instead, pay back with a blessing, because a blessing is what God promised to give you when he called you.

to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love.

If we say that we are in the light, yet hate others, we are in the darkness to this very hour.

But if we hate others, we are in the darkness; we walk in it and do not know where we are going, because the darkness has made us blind.

Here is the clear difference between God's children and the Devil's children: those who do not do what is right or do not love others are not God's children.

We must not be like Cain; he belonged to the Evil One and murdered his own brother Abel. Why did Cain murder him? Because the things he himself did were wrong, and the things his brother did were right.

We know that we have left death and come over into life; we know it because we love others. Those who do not love are still under the power of death.

This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others!

My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another.

If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen.

The command that Christ has given us is this: whoever loves God must love others also.

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is a child of God; and whoever loves a father loves his child also.

This is how we know that we love God's children: it is by loving God and obeying his commands.

Job's sons used to take turns giving a feast, to which all the others would come, and they always invited their three sisters to join them.

How wonderful it is, how pleasant, for God's people to live together in harmony!

So let's separate. Choose any part of the land you want. You go one way, and I'll go the other."

This, however, is not the way it shall be among you. If one of you wants to be great, you must be the servant of the rest;

Instead, when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that your host will come to you and say, 'Come on up, my friend, to a better place.' This will bring you honor in the presence of all the other guests.

Don't do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble toward one another, always considering others better than yourselves.

In the same way you younger people must submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you must put on the apron of humility, to serve one another; for the scripture says, "God resists the proud, but shows favor to the humble."