For each of you have to carry your own load.

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.

For the whole Law is summed up in one commandment: "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."

If his donkey has fallen under its load, help him get the donkey to its feet again; don't just walk off.

and he said to the LORD, "Why have you treated me so badly? Why are you displeased with me? Why have you given me the responsibility for all these people?

I didn't create them or bring them to birth! Why should you ask me to act like a nurse and carry them in my arms like babies all the way to the land you promised to their ancestors?

But how can I alone bear the heavy responsibility for settling your disputes?

"The kind of fasting I want is this: Remove the chains of oppression and the yoke of injustice, and let the oppressed go free.

He did this to make come true what the prophet Isaiah had said, "He himself took our sickness and carried away our diseases."

Take my yoke and put it on you, and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit; and you will find rest.

For the yoke I will give you is easy, and the load I will put on you is light."

Jesus answered, "How terrible also for you teachers of the Law! You put onto people's backs loads which are hard to carry, but you yourselves will not stretch out a finger to help them carry those loads.

We who are strong in the faith ought to help the weak to carry their burdens. We should not please ourselves.

We urge you, our friends, to warn the idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

Christ himself carried our sins in his body to the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness. It is by his wounds that you have been healed.

I, your Lord and Teacher, have just washed your feet. You, then, should wash one another's feet.

I have set an example for you, so that you will do just what I have done for you.

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

My commandment is this: love one another, just as I love you.

In the same way, when working with Gentiles, I live like a Gentile, outside the Jewish Law, in order to win Gentiles. This does not mean that I don't obey God's law; I am really under Christ's law.

You will be doing the right thing if you obey the law of the Kingdom, which is found in the scripture, "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."

However, the command I now write you is new, because its truth is seen in Christ and also in you. For the darkness is passing away, and the real light is already shining.

If we love others, we live in the light, and so there is nothing in us that will cause someone else to sin.

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