For this is the message you have learned from the very beginning, that we are to love one another:
This is my command: you are to love one another as I have loved you.
And now I entreat you, Lady — not as though I were writing you any new command, it is the command which we have had from the very beginning — let us love one another.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love belongs to God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God;
And we get this command from him, that he who loves God is to love his brother as well.
Above all, be keen to love one another, for love hides a host of sins.
Lastly, you must all be united, you must have sympathy, brotherly love, compassion, and humility,
and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Here is the message we learned from him and announce to you: 'God is light and in him there is no darkness, none.'
You need no one to write you upon brotherly love, for you are yourselves taught by God to love one another,
Now that your obedience to the Truth has purified your souls for a brotherly love that is sincere, love one another heartily and steadily.
Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
he rose from table, laid aside his robe, and tied a towel round him,
Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.