1 Peter 1:22

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

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

1 Timothy 1:5

My purpose in telling you to do this is to promote love—the kind of love shown by those whose thoughts are pure, who do what they know is right, and whose faith in God is real.

Hebrews 13:1

Continue loving each other as brothers and sisters in Christ.

1 John 4:12

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

1 John 4:7

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

1 Peter 3:8

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

James 4:8

Come near to God and he will come near to you. You are sinners, so clean sin out of your lives. You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure.

1 John 3:23

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

2 Thessalonians 1:3

Brothers and sisters, we thank God for you always. And that’s what we should do, because you give us good reason to be thankful: Your faith is growing more and more. And the love that every one of you has for each other is also growing.

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 everyone in the same way we love you.

1 John 4:20

If we say we love God but hate any of our brothers or sisters in his family, we are liars. If we don’t love someone we have seen, how can we love God? We have never even seen him.

1 Peter 2:17

Show respect for all people. Love your brothers and sisters in God’s family. Respect God, and honor the king.

Acts 15:9

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

1 John 3:11

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

2 Peter 1:7

to your devotion add kindness toward your brothers and sisters in Christ, and to this kindness add love.

Philippians 1:9

This is my prayer for you: that your love will grow more and more; that you will have knowledge and understanding with your love;

Ephesians 4:3

You are joined together with peace through the Spirit. Do all you can to continue as you are, letting peace hold you together.

Galatians 5:5

I say this because our hope of being right with God comes through faith. And the Spirit helps us feel sure as we wait for that hope.

Revelation 2:4

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

1 Peter 4:17

It is time for judging to begin. That judging will begin with God’s family. If it begins with us, then what will happen to those who don’t accept the Good News of God?

1 Peter 4:8

Most important of all, love each other deeply, because love makes you willing to forgive many sins.

Hebrews 11:8

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

Hebrews 9:14

So surely the blood sacrifice of Christ can do much more. Christ offered himself through the eternal Spirit as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make us completely clean from the evil we have done. It will give us clear consciences so that we can worship the living God.

Hebrews 6:10

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

2 Corinthians 6:6

We show that we are God’s servants by our pure lives, by our understanding, by our patience, and by our kindness. We show it by the Holy Spirit, by genuine love,

John 15:17

This is my command: Love each other.

1 Peter 3:1

In the same way, you wives should be willing to serve your husbands. Then, even those who have refused to accept God’s teaching will be persuaded to believe because of the way you live. You will not need to say anything.

Hebrews 5:9

This made him the perfect high priest, who provides the way for everyone who obeys him to be saved forever.

2 Timothy 1:14

This teaching is a treasure that you have been trusted with. Protect it with the help of the Holy Spirit, who lives inside us.

1 Timothy 5:2

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

1 Timothy 4:12

You are young, but don’t let anyone treat you as if you are not important. Be an example to show the believers how they should live. Show them by what you say, by the way you live, by your love, by your faith, and by your pure life.

1 Timothy 1:3

When I went to Macedonia, I asked you to stay in Ephesus. Some people there are teaching things that are not true, and I want you to tell them to stop.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

Brothers and sisters, you are people the Lord loves. And we always thank God for you. That’s what we should do, because God chose you to be some of the first people to be saved. You are saved by the Spirit making you holy and by your faith in the truth.

Galatians 3:1

You people in Galatia are so foolish! Why do I say this? Because I told you very clearly about the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. But now it seems as though you have let someone use their magical powers to make you forget.

Galatians 5:7

You were doing so well. Who caused you to stop following the truth?

Romans 8:13

If you use your lives to do what your sinful selves want, you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, you will have true life.

Romans 2:8

But others are selfish and refuse to follow truth. They follow evil. God will show his anger and punish them.

Romans 1:5

Through Christ, God gave me the special work of an apostle—to lead people of all nations to believe and obey him. I do all this to honor Christ.

John 17:17

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

John 15:3

You have already been prepared to produce more fruit by the teaching I have given you.

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.

John 17:19

I am making myself completely ready to serve you. I do this for them, so that they also might be fully qualified for your service.

James 1:21

So get rid of everything evil in your lives—every kind of wrong you do. Be humble and accept God’s teaching that is planted in your hearts. This teaching can save you.

1 Peter 1:2

God planned long ago to choose you and to make you his holy people, which is the Spirit’s work. God wanted you to obey him and to be made clean by the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. I pray that you will enjoy more and more of God’s grace and peace.

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 people while Noah was building the big boat. And only a few—eight in all—were saved in the boat through the floodwater.