and I pray that Christ will make his home in your hearts through faith. I pray that you may have your roots and foundation in love,

Be always humble, gentle, and patient. Show your love by being tolerant with one another.

Instead, by speaking the truth in a spirit of love, we must grow up in every way to Christ, who is the head.

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

Do not let what you regard as good get a bad name.

Do all your work in love.

And to all these qualities add love, which binds all things together in perfect unity.

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.

Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but be an example for the believers in your speech, your conduct, your love, faith, and purity.

Above everything, love one another earnestly, because love covers over many sins.

The message you heard from the very beginning is this: we must love one another.

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.

What he commands is that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as Christ commanded us.

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.

Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave his life for it.

Yes, may you come to know his love---although it can never be fully known---and so be completely filled with the very nature of God.

like the Son of Man, who did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life to redeem many people."

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

The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them.

We are ruled by the love of Christ, now that we recognize that one man died for everyone, which means that they all share in his death.

He died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but only for him who died and was raised to life for their sake.

You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ; rich as he was, he made himself poor for your sake, in order to make you rich by means of his poverty.

In order to set us free from this present evil age, Christ gave himself for our sins, in obedience to the will of our God and Father.

so that it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. This life that I live now, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave his life for me.

who gave himself to redeem the whole human race. That was the proof at the right time that God wants everyone to be saved,

He gave himself for us, to rescue us from all wickedness and to make us a pure people who belong to him alone and are eager to do good.

And so he is able, now and always, to save those who come to God through him, because he lives forever to plead with God for them.

He is not like other high priests; he does not need to offer sacrifices every day for his own sins first and then for the sins of the people. He offered one sacrifice, once and for all, when he offered himself.

Since this is true, how much more is accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will purify our consciences from useless rituals, so that we may serve the living God.

for then he would have had to suffer many times ever since the creation of the world. Instead, now when all ages of time are nearing the end, he has appeared once and for all, to remove sin through the sacrifice of himself.

Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted him to do, we are all purified from sin by the offering that he made of his own body once and for all.

Every Jewish priest performs his services every day and offers the same sacrifices many times; but these sacrifices can never take away sins.

It was to this that God called you, for Christ himself suffered for you and left you an example, so that you would follow in his steps.

When he was insulted, he did not answer back with an insult; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but placed his hopes in God, the righteous Judge.

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

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first to be raised from death and who is also the ruler of the kings of the world. He loves us, and by his sacrificial death he has freed us from our sins

They sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to break open its seals. For you were killed, and by your sacrificial death you bought for God people from every tribe, language, nation, and race.

What the Law could not do, because human nature was weak, God did. He condemned sin in human nature by sending his own Son, who came with a nature like our sinful nature, to do away with sin.

You must remove the old yeast of sin so that you will be entirely pure. Then you will be like a new batch of dough without any yeast, as indeed I know you actually are. For our Passover Festival is ready, now that Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Those things, which are copies of the heavenly originals, had to be purified in that way. But the heavenly things themselves require much better sacrifices.

Christ, however, offered one sacrifice for sins, an offering that is effective forever, and then he sat down at the right side of God.

The odor of the sacrifice pleased the LORD, and he said to himself, "Never again will I put the earth under a curse because of what people do; I know that from the time they are young their thoughts are evil. Never again will I destroy all living beings, as I have done this time.

You must wash the internal organs and the hind legs, and the officiating priest will burn the whole sacrifice on the altar. The odor of this food offering is pleasing to the LORD.

You must wash the internal organs and the hind legs, and the priest will present the sacrifice to the LORD and burn all of it on the altar. The odor of this food offering is pleasing to the LORD.

He shall take hold of its wings and tear its body open, without tearing the wings off, and then burn it whole on the altar. The odor of this food offering is pleasing to the LORD.

The priest shall burn all this on the altar as a food offering pleasing to the LORD. All the fat belongs to the LORD.

The LORD says, "I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them!

For we are like a sweet-smelling incense offered by Christ to God, which spreads among those who are being saved and those who are being lost.