And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God should love his brother also.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

We know that we have passed over from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

By this we have come to know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives in behalf of our brothers.

Beloved, if in this way God loved us, indeed we ought to love one another.

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

You are My friends if you do what I command you.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet on account of you He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, you also arm yourselves [with] the same mind, because he who suffered in [the] flesh has ceased from sin,

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime to accomplish the will of the Gentiles--having walked in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

For behold, the winter is past, the rain is gone, it has departed.

The flowers are seen in the land; the time of pruning has arrived; the voice of the turtle dove has been heard in our land.

O people walking in darkness, behold a great light; you that dwell in the region [and] shadow of death, a light shall shine upon you.

Be enlightened, be enlightened, O Jerusalem, for your light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon you!

And kings shall walk in your light, and nations in your brightness.

the people sitting in darkness have seen a great light, and to those who sat in the land and the shadow of death, light sprang up on them."

to give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

I have come as a light into the world, so that whoever believes in Me may not abide in darkness.

So then these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, [in order for] them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

The night is advanced, the day is at hand. Therefore let us put off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.

Because it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts to give [the] light of the knowledge of the glory of God in [the] face of Jesus Christ.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light--

You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those getting drunk, are drunk at night.

[A Psalm] of David, before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my Savior; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we shall see light.

For the Lord loves mercy and truth; God will give grace and glory; the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.

But to you that fear My name shall the Sun of righteousness arise, and healing [shall be] in His wings: and you shall go forth, and bound as young calves let loose from bonds.

In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not apprehend it.

That was the true Light which lightens every man coming into the world.

Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He that follows Me shall by no means walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Then Jesus said to them, "[For] yet a little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.

but has now been revealed through the appearance of our Savior Jesus Christ, having nullified death on the one hand, [and] having brought to life immortality through the gospel on the other,