1 Peter 1:22

Easy To Read Version

Now you have made yourselves pure by obeying the truth. Now you can have true love for your brothers and sisters. So love each other deeply—with all your heart.

Cross References

John 15:17

This is my command: Love each other.

John 15:3

You are already clean because of the teaching I have told you.

John 17:17

Make them ready for your service through your truth. Your teaching is truth.

John 17:19

I am making myself ready to serve. I do this for them, so that they can truly be ready for your service.

Acts 15:9

To God, those people are not different from us. When they believed, God made their hearts pure.

Acts 6:7

The word of God was reaching more and more people. The group of followers in Jerusalem became larger and larger. Even a big group of Jewish priests believed and obeyed.

Romans 1:5

Through Christ, God gave me the special work of an apostle. {\cf2\super [7]} God gave me this work to lead people of all nations to believe and obey God. And I do this work for Christ.

Romans 2:8

But other people are selfish and refuse to follow truth. Those people follow evil. God will give those people his punishment and anger.

Romans 8:13

If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, then you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s {\cf2\super [64]} help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, then you will have \{true\} life.

2 Corinthians 6:6

\{We show that we are servants of God\} by our understanding, by our patience, by our kindness, and by living pure. \{We show this\} by the Holy Spirit, {\cf2\super [21]} by true love,

Galatians 3:1

You people in Galatia were told very clearly about the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. But you were very foolish. You let someone trick you.

Galatians 5:5

I say this because our hope of being made right with God comes through faith. And the Spirit {\cf2\super [63]} helps us wait for that hope

Galatians 5:7

You were running a good race. You were obeying the truth. Who persuaded you to stop following the true way?

Ephesians 4:3

You are joined together with peace through the Spirit. {\cf2\super [28]} Do all you can to continue together in this way. Let peace hold you together.

Philippians 1:9

This is my prayer for you:

1 Thessalonians 3:12

We pray that the Lord will make your love grow. We pray that he will give you more and more love for each other and for all people. We pray that you will love all people like we love you.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

We thank God for you always. And we should do that because that is right for us to do. It is right because your faith is growing more and more. And the love that every one of you has for each other is also growing.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

Brothers and sisters, the Lord loves you. God chose you from the beginning to be saved. So we should always thank God for you. You are saved by the Spirit {\cf2\super [7]} making you holy {\cf2\super [8]} and by your faith (believing) in the truth.

1 Timothy 1:3

I want you to stay in Ephesus. I asked you to do that when I went into Macedonia. Some people there in Ephesus are teaching false things. Stay there so that you can command those people not to teach those false things.

1 Timothy 1:5

The goal of this command is for people to have love. To have this love people must have a pure heart, they must do what they know is right, and they must have true faith.

1 Timothy 4:12

You are young, but don’t let any person treat you like you are not important. Be an example to show the believers how they should live. Show them with the things you say, with the way you live, with your love, with your faith, and with your pure life.

1 Timothy 5:2

Treat the older women like mothers. And treat the younger women with respect like sisters.

2 Timothy 1:14

Protect the truth that you were given. Protect those things with the help of the Holy Spirit. {\cf2\super [9]} That Holy Spirit lives inside us.

Hebrews 11:8

God called Abraham to travel to another place that God promised to give Abraham. Abraham did not know where that other place was. But Abraham obeyed God and started traveling, because Abraham had faith.

Hebrews 13:1

You are brothers and sisters in Christ, so continue loving each other.

Hebrews 5:9

Then Jesus was perfect. And Jesus is the reason that all those people who obey him can have salvation forever.

Hebrews 6:10

God is fair. God will remember all the work you have done. And God will remember that you showed your love to him by helping his people. And God will remember that you continue to help his people.

Hebrews 9:14

So surely the blood of Christ can do much, much more. Christ offered himself through the eternal Spirit {\cf2\super [106]} as a perfect sacrifice {\cf2\super [107]} to God. His blood will make us fully clean from the evil things we have done. His blood will make us pure even in our hearts. We are made pure so that we can worship (serve) the living God.

James 1:21

So put out of your life every evil thing and every kind of wrong thing you do. Be humble and accept God’s teaching that is planted in your hearts. This teaching can save you.

James 4:8

Come near to God and God will come near to you. You are sinners. So clean sin out of your lives. {\cf2\super [23]} You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure.

1 Peter 1:2

God planned long ago to choose you by making you his holy people. {\cf2\super [2]} Making you holy is the Spirit’s {\cf2\super [3]} work. God wanted you to obey him and to be made clean by the blood (death) of Jesus Christ. Grace (kindness) and peace be yours more and more.

1 Peter 2:17

Show respect for all people. Love all the brothers and sisters of God’s family. Fear (respect) God, and honor the king.

1 Peter 3:1

In the same way you wives should be willing to serve your husbands. Then, if some of your husbands have not obeyed \{God’s\} teaching, they will be persuaded to believe. You will not need to say anything. They will be persuaded by the way their wives live.

1 Peter 3:20

Those were the spirits who refused to obey God long ago in the time of Noah. God was waiting patiently for them while Noah was building the big boat. Only a few people—eight in all—were saved in that boat. Those people were saved by water.

1 Peter 3:8

So all of you should live together in peace. Try to understand each other. Love each other like brothers. Be kind and humble.

1 Peter 4:17

It is time for judging to begin. That judging will begin with God’s family. If that judgment begins with us, then what will happen to those people who don’t accept the Good News {\cf2\super [29]} of God?

1 Peter 4:8

Most important, love each other deeply. Love hides many, many sins.

2 Peter 1:7

and to your service for God add kindness for your brothers and sisters \{in Christ\}; and to this kindness for your brothers and sisters add love.

1 John 3:11

This is the teaching you have heard from the beginning: We must love each other.

1 John 3:23

This is what God commands: that we believe in his Son Jesus Christ and that we love each other. This is what he commanded.

1 John 4:12

No person has ever seen God. But if we love each other, then God lives in us. If we love each other, then God’s love has reached its goal—it is made perfect in us.

1 John 4:20

If a person says, “I love God,” but that person hates his brother or sister \{in Christ\}, then that person is a liar. That person can see his brother, but he hates him. So that person cannot love God, because he has never seen God!

1 John 4:7

Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. The person who loves has become God’s child. And so the person who loves knows God.

Revelation 2:4

“But I have this against you: You have left the love you had in the beginning.