Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
Let brotherly love continue.
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.
Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,
eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first.
We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that?
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love;
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,
And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.
older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,
But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.
You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?
For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.
And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
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