1 John 4:20
339 helpful votesIf anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
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If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell.
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
A song of ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
leave your gift there before the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.
For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob. The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors. On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced, you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended! The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers. . . .
And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
And over all these virtues put on love, which is the bond of perfect unity.
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed.
Do to others as you would have them do to you.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Continue in brotherly love. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them. Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.” . . .
Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Do everything in love.
Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for the sake of His name. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. . . .
Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
“Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t His mother’s name Mary, and aren’t His brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas? Aren’t all His sisters with us as well? Where then did this man get all these things?”
Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.
By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.
If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.
Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
Continue in brotherly love.
Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, that is how you must stand firm in the Lord, my beloved.
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her
If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.
We love because He first loved us.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
As they traveled along, Jesus entered a village where a woman named Martha welcomed Him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to His message. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations to be made. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her to help me!” “Martha, Martha,” the Lord replied, “you are worried and upset about many things. But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that? So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.
Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to Him. Someone told Him, “Look, Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to You.” But Jesus replied, “Who is My mother, and who are My brothers?” Pointing to His disciples, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers. For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Whoever conceals an offense promotes love, but he who brings it up separates friends.
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,
And this is His commandment: that we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and we should love one another just as He commanded us.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.
There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love. We love because He first loved us.
Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
For the choirmaster. Of David the servant of the LORD, who sang this song to the LORD on the day the LORD had delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love You, O LORD, my strength.
Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus,
And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being united in spirit and purpose.
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,
Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?
But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.
For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
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