that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head -- Christ --

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

Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil;

Let all [that] you [do] be done with love.

But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

And above all things have fervent love for one another, for "love will cover a multitude of sins."

For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another,

not as Cain [who] was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous.

And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.

If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

"just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

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

"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;

and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

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

who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the [life] which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself [His] own special people, zealous for good works.

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people's, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all.]

And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:

who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed [Himself] to Him who judges righteously;

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation,

For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did] by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh,

Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

Therefore [it was] necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God,

And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart [is] evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

'but he shall wash its entrails and its legs with water. And the priest shall burn all on the altar as a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

'but he shall wash the entrails and the legs with water. Then the priest shall bring [it] all and burn [it] on the altar; it [is] a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

'Then he shall split it at its wings, [but] shall not divide [it] completely; and the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that [is] on the fire. It [is] a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, a sweet aroma to the LORD.

'and the priest shall burn them on the altar [as] food, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma; all the fat [is] the LORD's.

" I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.

For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.