Bible Cross References
Let all your things be done with charity.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now, concerning what you wrote about food offered to idols. It is true, of course, that "all of us have knowledge," as they say. Such knowledge, however, puffs a person up with pride; but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 12:31
Set your hearts, then, on the more important gifts. Best of all, however, is the following way.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell.
2
I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains---but if I have no love, I am nothing.
3
I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned ---but if I have no love, this does me no good.
4
Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud;
5
love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs;
6
love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth.
7
Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.
8
Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass.
9
For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial;
10
but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.
11
When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways.
12
What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete---as complete as God's knowledge of me.
13
Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 14:1
It is love, then, that you should strive for. Set your hearts on spiritual gifts, especially the gift of proclaiming God's message.
John 13:34
And now I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
John 13:35
If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples."
John 15:17
This, then, is what I command you: love one another.
Romans 13:8-10
8
Be under obligation to no one---the only obligation you have is to love one another. Whoever does this has obeyed the Law.
9
The commandments, "Do not commit adultery; do not commit murder; do not steal; do not desire what belongs to someone else"---all these, and any others besides, are summed up in the one command, "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."
10
If you love others, you will never do them wrong; to love, then, is to obey the whole Law.
Romans 14:15
If you hurt others because of something you eat, then you are no longer acting from love. Do not let the food that you eat ruin the person for whom Christ died!
Galatians 5:13
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.
Galatians 5:14
For the whole Law is summed up in one commandment: "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."
Galatians 5:22
But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 4:1-3
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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.
2
Be always humble, gentle, and patient. Show your love by being tolerant with one another.
3
Do your best to preserve the unity which the Spirit gives by means of the peace that binds you together.
Philippians 2:1-3
1
Your life in Christ makes you strong, and his love comforts you. You have fellowship with the Spirit, and you have kindness and compassion for one another.
2
I urge you, then, to make me completely happy by having the same thoughts, sharing the same love, and being one in soul and mind.
3
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.
1 Thessalonians 3:6
Now Timothy has come back, and he has brought us the welcome news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always think well of us and that you want to see us just as much as we want to see you.
1 Thessalonians 3:12
May the Lord make your love for one another and for all people grow more and more and become as great as our love for you.
1 Thessalonians 4:9
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.
1 Thessalonians 4:10
And you have, in fact, behaved like this toward all the believers in all of Macedonia. So we beg you, our friends, to do even more.
2 Thessalonians 1:3
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.
1 Timothy 1:5
The purpose of this order is to arouse the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a genuine faith.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
1 Peter 4:8
Above everything, love one another earnestly, because love covers over many sins.
2 Peter 1:7
to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love.
1 John 4:7
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.
1 John 4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.